While some
researchers root through privileged industry documents, others analyse and
share the latest scientific and economic data. Advocates are able to strike
fast,as they did recently, and, not coincidentally, so addictive, that it
can fan its marketing and public relations troops
across the globe,laying siege to retailers and legislators, wreaking havoc
among scientists and journalists.
Though tobacco-control advocates and organizations lack the spending power
of the nicotine cartel,they wield an ethereal tool that nearly levels the
playing field. This not- so-secret weapon is the Internet. Able to leap continents
in a single bound, it helps yield scientifically grounded an
swers to every shoddy argument of the tobacco apologists. Industry executives
can fly to strategy planning meetings by private jet, but tobacco-control
advocates get there first,exchanging ideas and craft-
ing campaigns online.
Through e-mail and the World Wide the ongoing Internet-based offensive by
anti-tobacco advocates.
Winter
2003
Vol.
10, Issue 1
...Internet