Comments on: Yamaha drops Gauloises

By: sigint

sigint — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:32:33 +0000

Naw. I think they’re pushing their cheese line more or something.

By: doug

doug — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:32:01 +0000

Outlawing behavior & restricting behavior can sometimes be very close.

Smoking has been banned in all public buildings in WA state, thankfully. I can go to a gig in a bar & not smell like an ashtray in the morning.

The lobbying groups, local clubs, publications, individual riders, etc. would do our sport some good to reach out to the riders who:

- do stand-up wheelies on the freeway
- maintain the idea “louder-is-better-even-though-it-sounds-like-garbage”
- the mob affect the mass of riders at rallys has on a community. Your rally doesn’t mean you own the town and can do whatever the hell you want, even if the tourism dollars are large.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:56:58 +0000

Isn’t Phillip Morris dead? last I heard, the world hated them enough that the company changed their name to something like OmniCorp or Erectria or something…Altria-that’s it! (if you can’t get investors when people know what you do…pretend you’re a different faceless corporation in the hopes that people won’t avoid investing)

anyways, this only suprised me because it came a year too late. the story i heard was that when rossi signed for yamaha, the contract stated that the team would run tabacco free in the second year. reportedly this was the difference between yamaha and ducati. ducati would not drop malboro for rossi, yamaha agreed to run smoke free. why it took two years vs one? who knows… maybe yamaha’s decision was based on rossi’s contract renewal this year?

By: sigint

sigint — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:26:56 +0000

I think we’re seeing the end of big tabacco. Even Philip Morris seems to be wanting to back away from cigs and focus their other divisions (because of all their underage smoking commercials and such). I doubt they’ll outlaw smoking. They tried with alcohol and look where that got them (in the US anyways).