With time, perseverance and patience this will be the case. It took a  
LONG time (decades), much research, money, lawsuits etc. etc.  for  
cigarettes to be recognized and treated as the danger that they are.

In the US at least, there is nothing amiss about departments of  
public health, hospitals and others promoting corporate, commercial  
endeavors. That's considered fair game here.

We have much to learn from the experience of the anti- tobacco  
movement. I would love to see a conference, or a session at a  
conference (ILCA perhaps?) where breastfeeding advocates and anti- 
tobacco advocates sit down together to learn from and strategize with  
one another. We have something to offer them on the international  
marketing front and they have plenty to offer us on the domestic  
(well, US domestic anyway.) We could make powerful allies.

Naomi Bar-Yam


On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:02 AM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:

> Why on earth not! Now tell me that the health dept would allow  
> cigarettes to
> be given away?? Why allow a company to market something that will  
> harm the
> health of babies and mothers (and increase infant mortality!)
> Karleen Gribble
> Australia

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