GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
AGAINST BIG TOBACCO




April 23-24, 2003
Richmond, VA

REVOKE "LICENSE TO KILL"
April 23, 2003

ALTRIA SHAREHOLDERS MTG
April 24, 2003

TEEN ADVOCACY WORKSHOP
April 23, 2003

Licensed to Kill, Inc
We're Rich, You're Dead!

Photo credit: AP/Wayne Scarberry

Messages that Our Global Partners
Asked Us to Bring to Louis Camilleri
and Altria Shareholders

  • BENIN: Altria murders human lives in Benin. Stop peddling death in Africa! (Bernard Dossou Dossa, Que Choisir Que Choisir)

  • CAMEROON: I would like the CEO of Altria to publicly acknowledge that his company's tobacco products are extremely deadly and kill thousands and thousands of people around the world each year. (Alphonse Issi, Mouvement National des Consommateurs)

  • JORDAN: Maybe you are many times over a millionaire, but your riches are tainted with the suffering and death of millions more. Altria/Philip Morris is a "cemetery maker." (Muna Hamzeh, Ministry of Health, Jordan)

  • QATAR: What is the price of a human life? What is the difference between cigarettes and "weapons of mass destruction", in terms of the number of people they kill? Cigarettes kill a lot more! It is against God, for multinational companies to prey on people in the "East." Are our lives worth less than your lives in the West? (Dr. Rami Diabi)

  • SRI LANKA: Would you encourage your own children to smoke? If not, why not? If yes, why? (Manjari Peiris, Independent Journalist)

  • UGANDA: How do you sleep, knowing that millions will never see another sunrise because of a product you push? (Angelo Izama, Monitor FM)

  • URUGUAY: One day, you and your company will be brought before an international tribunal for crimes against humanity (Adriana Menendez, Sindicato Medico del Uruguay)


Essential Action's Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control program links tobacco control groups in the U.S. and Canada with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Central/Eastern Europe to monitor and resist Big Tobacco's global expansion.
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