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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.legal
Subject: Re: AMA anti-smoking drive
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Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 12:08:41 EST
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In article <748@unc.unc.UUCP> rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) writes:
>My contention is that advertising is behavior modification, not
>statement of views, and therefore is not protected under the bill of
>rights.  

I would sure hate to see the courts start holding that some speech is
"behavior modification", and therefore not protected.  The whole point
of any sort of persuasion is to modify behaviour.  It's not as if a
commercial forced you to smoke.  (Or drink.)
-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"The heart has its reasons that the mind does not know." -- Blaise Pascal