Media smokescreen
10 January 2004. Inspired by .
"Most of Hamlet's success is in getting people young." Laertes would agree.
The House of Commons select committee report on the tobacco industry's advertising methods in 2000 succeeded in getting thousands of internal memos from the industry that reveal the ways and means of how to advertise when the government bans it all. "Make the minister appear like she's the minister for bans" is one solution of getting the public on their side. All of the memos have just appeared online as well as their report.