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anti-smoking groups oppose price support for the killer weed. The manufacturers are content to see price supports and the small grower go under. Their concern is not with supplies and production, but with sales.
Since they kill 350,000 people each year, and many smokers quit, the tobacco industry must recruit young smokers or it will face extinction. This means getting Industry spokesperson routinety deny that they market cigarettes to young people. But cigarette advertisements continue to appear in magazines with large teenaged readerships. The industry spent $6.3 million in 1985 advertising in Glamour, with its large readership of girls Documents subpoenaed from the industry indicate the advertising game plan is to associate cigarettes with the Getting young people hooked reaches 8.8 milpublication gets any other publitheir name. vertised-product in the nation. these merchants of death to kill us off. disagreement on these issues (rads don't necessarily have to march in line, do we?), I have found S.A. thought-provoking at the very least-which is much more than one can say for mainstream rags in our geographical area.
Keep up the good work. I'm enclosing a check for a subscription renewal.
Baltimore, Md.
Soviet tour Dear editor, On March 31, over 80 people attended a Los Angeles Socialist Action forum to hear Ralph Schoenman and Suzi Weissman interests. All the cigarette companies have dropped the word "tobacco" from report back on their recent visit to the Soviet Union. [For more on tour, see April 1989 Socialist Action.] Weissman described how the intellectuals, while not completely familiar with Trotsky, know enough about him to appreciate his strong and unyielding stance against Stalin.
Schoenman pointed out how the workers are getting squeezed by perestroika market reforms. He said that the Soviet left should boldly address the workers, but noted that the left in general lacks a program for doing so. Many of the dissident organizations, if not most, romanticize the market economy and are interested in experimenting with perestroika reforms.
He concluded by noting that a workers' explosion is in the offing, as the Soviet workers seek to defend the gains of the October Revolution against the policies of Gorbachev and the bureaucracy.
Marty Denzel, Los Angeles, Calif We welcome letters from our readers. Please keep them brief.
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