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I PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC. INTER OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE 800 WESTCHESTER AVENUE, RYE BROOK NEW YORK 10573-1301 TO: Matt Winokur pAffpril 21, 1992 FROM: Anne Okoniewskiw SUBUECT: New Book: "With Clarity Toward None" "With Clarity Toward None," is a publication by humorist Florence King, and is a fond look at misanthropy. The views expressed in this book are similar to those expressed in an August 1991, Time magazine article, "Busybodies & Crybabies," which discussed the American character and why Americans have become so intolerant. While discussing general American intolerance, King begins her critique of smokists, or anti-smoking groups. On page 33 of the book, she writes, "Hatred for smokers is the leading form of closet misanthropy in the Republic of Mean. Smokists don't hate the sin, they hate the sinner." King also discusses the tactics of anti-smoking zealots. She states that when anti-smoking zealots weren't going very far with their cause, they coined the phrase "passive smoking." "To put a real damper on smoking and make it stick, the right of others not to die had to be invoked somehow, so "passive smoking" was invented." King goes on to describe her dislike for anti-smoking zealots. She tells how they make smokers feel dirty and how they subject smokers to public ridicule. King, a smoker herself, feels that, "Smokers are the new greenhorns in the land of sweetness and health, scapegoats for a quintessentially American need, rooted in our fabled Great Diversity, to identify and punish the undesirables among us." King's book is a flurry of gripes she has, not only with the anti-smoking zealots but, with other groups such as: feminists, yuppies, affirmative action groups, Greenpeace, and environmentalists. Attached for your information is an author profile, an additional article from the National Review. Attachments