Icky
I'm excited about the National Folk Festival taking place next month, but I wasn't pleased to learn it's being cosponsored by Swedish Match, a company that makes snuff, chaw, pipe tobacco and smoking paraphernalia. What's next? Allowing a company whose products have killed millions of people to build a bioresearch center downtown?
Seriously, though, the folk festival should say thanks but no thanks to a company that profits from causing cancer of the esophagus, mouth and larynx and is just plain a disgusting habit. Or maybe they think wading in ankle-deep dip juice to see Ralph Stanley will add some authenticity to the whole venture?
Click here to see some lovely pictures of what smokeless tobacco does to users' mouths.
Seriously, though, the folk festival should say thanks but no thanks to a company that profits from causing cancer of the esophagus, mouth and larynx and is just plain a disgusting habit. Or maybe they think wading in ankle-deep dip juice to see Ralph Stanley will add some authenticity to the whole venture?
Click here to see some lovely pictures of what smokeless tobacco does to users' mouths.
posted by Andrew Beaujon at 09:47
2 Comments:
I don't think Swedish Match is an inappropriate/evil sponsor. Some people may use their various tobaccos to excess, but I may actually want to smoke a pipe every so often and I'm glad they're around for it.
that doesn't offend me as much as HealthSouth (or is it SouthHealth?) sponsoring Nascar.
Talk about a sedentary, smog-filled lard-butt polluting unhealthy activity.
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