Newsgroups: alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc
From: [ae 446] at [Freenet.carleton.ca] (Nigel Allen)
Subject: 'Old Joe' Advertising
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 08:18:46 GMT


Here is a press release from the American Medical Association.
I downloaded the press release from the PR On-Line BBS in Maryland 
at 410-363-0834. 

 American Medical Association Comments on Federal Trade
Recommendation Regarding 'Old Joe' Advertising
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Dan Maier, of the American Medical Association
          312-464-5382

   WASHINGTON, Aug. 11   -- The following statement
is by John L. Clowe, M.D., past president of the American Medical
Association:

   We are extremely pleased and excited by the Federal Trade
Commission's recommendations that "Old Joe" advertising be banned
and hope the commissioners act with great haste.
   The real hero of this fight against "Old Joe" has been Surgeon
General Novello who has supported the AMA's two-year alley fight to
ban the addicted dromedary.  Two years is far too long to wait for
action, but better late than never.
   If the tobacco industry had any shred of humanity or sense of
business ethics, "Old Joe" would have been set out in the desert
back in 1991.  Once again, the world has seen once again the
true face of tobacco conglomerates.  It is a ruthless face of
greed, disease and addiction.

 -30-

-- 
Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada  [ae 446] at [freenet.carleton.ca]