Re: Cato forum on liquor advertising and electronic media

[Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>]

At 9:13 PM -0700 4/24/97, Blanc wrote:
>Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>>The Center for Media Education is trying to accelerate this process. In a
>>fearmongering report earlier this year, the group demanded that a slew of
>>government agencies -- the FCC, FDA, FTC, CDC, NCI, and the WHO -- take
>>"urgent agction" to "protect" America's children from tobacco and liquor
>>advertising online.
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>
>I wish these people would go live in the U.S.S.R., or something.(*)
>
>...
>
>(*) yes, I know it doesn't exist anymore.  Too bad.  Some people belong in
>a State like that.  Where they can live with each other and never grow up,
>but only wither away from atrophy of the mind.

We still have North Korea, and even better, Myanmar where net access is
illegal.

What is highly amusing is the mounting evidence that alcoholic beverages in
moderation are good for your health.  Of course, if you are one of the
small percent of the population who can't be moderate, then you should not
use alcoholic beverages.  But many people have bad reactions to various
foods.  That's no reason to forbid them or their advertising.


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