I often substitute tobacco companies for formula companies when I'm thinking through ethical issues. Are there any circumstances under which we'd be willing to give a talk on lung surgery or new chemo meds or cancer prevention or the hospital's new respiratory therapy dept or some such, if the conference were partially underwritten by a tobacco company? Since I don't have any expertise in any of those areas, I haven't given it a moment's thought, beyond setting up a scenario. Could some of us who *do* have cancer or lung-related expertise comment on the ethics involved for them, or the conditions they would apply before they'd speak, or whether such a conference would even happen? -- Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY www.wiessinger.baka.com *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html