Sinfully lucrative; Smokers, drinkers and gamblers all have 'addictions,' and are milked for billions.(Canada)
Report Newsmagazine, The, August, 2002 by Grace, Kevin Michael
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It is difficult to talk to Garfield Mahood without being reminded of Peter Simple's most inspired satiric creation, "The Church of Jesus Christ the Non-Smoker." The executive director of the Non-Smokers Rights Association radiates a religious intensity, even over the telephone.
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And one cannot escape the irony that one is talking to him in the same week that the Pope, a visitor to Mr. Mahood's Toronto, was routinely excoriated for supposedly trying to "impose" his morality on Canadian Catholics. As Thomas Szasz noted decades ago, the Christian Church has been ...
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