Does this make Thatcher a killer?

[supsim96]

Margaret Thatcher negotiated the deal for transferral of the former State tobacco company in Khazakstan over to the american cigarette company Philip Morris.

Khazakstan?, that was a relatively poor country with smallish population before oil wealth came along wasn't it? - strange place for Thatcher to negotiate such a dirty deal?, you say?

No!!!!! Khazakstan shares a 1000 mile long "porous" border with China. Philip Morris smuggle cigarettes out of Khazakstan and across to their more populus neighbour.

China is the only country in the world where the numbers of smokers are increasing - the Communist dictatorship see premature death from smoking as a "simple" control on population growth.

So does Thatcher's role in enabling PM to smuggle marlboro cigarettes into China and their hundreds of millions of unaware smokers make her a killer then? or not?

[andy at handiwork]

Jury is out on that one I think. I had a quick look on Friends Reunited recently only to discover how proud someone I used to know at school 30 years ago is about being a senior executive in a major tobacco company. Well I suppose it's more respectable than being a part-time pornographer.

[planeterotica]

Tobacco is not an illegal substance and i was never a fan of Thatcher but this dosnt make her a killer anymore than people who hold shares in breweries or Tescos or any other food retailer/outlet who fill us up with junk food as all these things can kill us, not to mention the oil companies who are killing us with their pollution the list is endless !wink!

[supsim96]

Aye, but the poor chinese sods she's helped pump full of marlboro aren't aware that tobacco's a killer!

[jj]

supsim96 wrote:
> So does Thatcher's role in enabling PM to smuggle marlboro
> cigarettes into China and their hundreds of millions of unaware
> smokers make her a killer then? or not?

No.
But it would add to the already-massive burden of guilt she
would have, were she to have been a person with any real self-
knowledge or concern for anyone outside her immediate family.

[andy at handiwork]

Well pornography is a generally legal product, but I bet those involved in the production of cigs are often as not more likely to admit it in polite company than those who produce porn.