tobacco-like product

[GarthB]

Greymule:
I wasn't referring to the problems with youth and tobacco, I was referring to the "raging" debate over the Fed rule.

You make a great point.

You'll like this:

Once when I was in the P/R - advertising business I had a television station as a client. I also ran ads on that station for other clients. One day I had a meeting with both the managment of the station to discuss some "image" problems and with the sales office to place a buy.

In the meeting with the vice president/GM I was asked how to best get out their message that television doesn't encourage violence. Their position, I was told, was that televsion is pure entertainment and does not effect anyone's behavior.

Later, in the sales meeting, I was presented with facts and figures of how advertsing another client's products on television would succeed because of television's ability to persuade and "modify" behavior.

And all the time everyone kept a straight face.