Yesterday I saw the show „The Awful Truth” by Michael Moore. The show is hosted by the director and is about his crusade to expose wrongdoing by the high and mighty. It was amusing and horrifying at the same time to see him walk into the Phillip Morris headquarters with a bunch of “smoker victims”, all dressed up as Santa Claus and singing Christmas carols. All of those – hopefully former – smokers had their vocal cords removed and therefore had to use an electro larynx, a vibrating device that acts as a sound source when it is held against the neck, producing an artificial, mechanical sound.
The smokers (of course) blame Phillip Morris and other big cigarette manufactures for misleading them and making them believe that there are no lethal side effects in smoking. In the show, an old commercial with Johnny Roventini (Johnny the Bellboy ) was featured, who mentioned that scientists had proven that Phillip Morris cigarettes are not harmful in any way. Well, time as passed by, and nowadays everyone is made aware that smoking is unhealthy and BAD. Still, people enjoy smoking, even if scientifically proven that it can kill them.
So what are the cancer victims of the future are going to do? They have been told from the very beginning that smoking is bad. No more lies… There has to be someone to blame, taking responsibility for your own actions is not the right answer. But who are you going to sue? If anyone has a good answer to that question, please let me know because then I can start smoking too and make sure I have a multi-million dollar settlement whenI retire.
But maybe by the time the young smokers of today realize that they got lunge-cancer and those Ads in the year 2006 where right, scientist have also proven that cell phones are indeed unhealthy and dangerous, can cause brain damage and make you a wimp in bed. So then Michael Moore (still alive because he dose not smoke or has a cell phone) can walk into the office of Nokia around Christmas time and sing Ho Ho Ho…
