"Is it just me, or does this sound an awful lot like the way that drug dealers hook drug users on drugs? " It is even more like the "old days" when I traveled from Puerto Rico to the US. As we entered the plane, EVERY ADULT PASSENGER was given a small pack of 3 cigarettes. I use this example in my trainings about breastfeeding and why we have been losing the battle... or at least not gaining as we had hoped, thanks to the formula gift packs. In addition, I tell them of the advertisements I used to see on TV - a physician proclaiming the importance of asking his patients to smoke this particular "low tar and nicotine" brand. Whether he was a real MD or not is immaterial - the man was dressed in a white lab coat and was introduced as a "Dr." Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC Vacaville, CA *********************************************** 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