How I Almost Became The Marlboro Man

[Bluey]

Great story at www.crikey.com.au by John Safran:
How I Almost Became The Marlboro Man

About how a tobacco company is sneaking around the current advertising bans to build databases of their target demographic - teenagers.

Includes details of a very dodgy scheme involving provision of free health education kits to schools which did not include any references to smoking.

If it wasn't true it would be hilarious!

 

[Dave]

Yes, and the article on Joe G was intersting too:
http://www.crikey.com.au/business/businessHeadline1.html

 

[Dave]

Bluey,
just read the Marlboro Man story - bloody scary isn't it? I guess it just goes to show no matter how smart the legal eagles who make the laws think they are, there's always someone just a little smarter waiting to out-wit them.

 

[Grendel]

Correct me if Im wrong but didnt the origional M*****o Man turn out to be *** ? Also im sure there was a doco on the abc a while back that he was dying of lung cancer.

And this stuff is still legal???

 

[Arch]

turn out to be what ????
damn filters....

 

[Grendel]

Soory didnt know that a filter would put out another word for happy, starting with a G looks like GUY and you take out the u and put an a in instead.