Put another way, ExxonMobil telling us about modest emissions reductions in its own facilities is a bit like a large
cigarette manufacturer telling us it has reduced smoking in its own plants and offices (by a modest amount) even as it continues to market and push cigarettes to everyone else in much larger volumes.
«No matter how this process spins itself out,» George Griffin, commercial counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul,
told Matthew N. Winokur, public affairs manager of Philip Morris Asia, in a «Dear Matt» letter in January 1986, «I want to emphasize that the embassy and the various U.S. government agencies in Washington will keep the interests of Philip Morris and the other American
cigarette manufacturers in the forefront of our daily concerns.»