Post by Ann on Jul 24, 2009 7:58:59 GMT -5
"After breaking off my 18 year love-hate relationship with Phillip Morris, I thought I owed him the courtesy of a goodbye letter. I sent this a few days ago.
Dear Sir or Madam, January 5,2003
Enclosed you will find the mangled remains of the cigarette coupons which you recently sent to my home. Please remove my name from your mailing list as I no longer have any use for your products. After spending nearly twenty years of my life as a nicotine addict, during which time I wasted thousands of dollars on your cigarettes, I quit smoking a little over four years ago. I will never spend another cent on tobacco, no matter how many special offers I receive in the mail.
I doubt your accounting department has missed the paltry six dollars a day which they no longer receive from me. But I'd like to think they noticed when my Dad quit smoking. My dad was a much heavier smoker than I. He smoked more than two cartons a week of non-filtered Pall Malls. (He got hooked back when you guys were fishing with the serious bait.) My Dad quit on February 14th, 1986. He had a pack of your smokes in his chest pocket when my mother found him on the kitchen floor, dead from a massive heart attack. He was 49. How ironic for my mother to lose the love of her life on Valentine's Day. She misses him (and his income) even more than your accountants do.
I guess I don't actually believe the Marlboro empire ever felt any monetary effects from the loss of my Dad's patronage. But, as a member of several on-line smoking cessation support groups, I know of thousands of people who've quit smoking in the past 5 years, and I'm starting to think your company might be feeling a slightly noticeable dent in it's profits. Why else would you be chumming the waters with all of these special offer mailings. Twice in the past week I've found coupons in my mailbox from your company . A few days ago I even received a coupon for a "FREE" pack of smokes. (It was actually a "buy one pack and get another one for free" coupon.) But there's no such thing as free cigarettes. They all come with a ball and chain attached.
Don't put the yacht up for sale yet. I'm sure the guys down in the advertising department are working on several new ideas to make your products attractive to new customers. I have to admit those guys are good at what they do. Every day millions of people pay up to seven dollars a pack for a product which they burn to ashes, causing themselves and everything around them to stink and turn yellow. It's amazing to me, but I'm sure today thousands of people will purchase their first pack. Who knows, they may even "buy one and get another one for free".
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Dear Sir or Madam, January 5,2003
Enclosed you will find the mangled remains of the cigarette coupons which you recently sent to my home. Please remove my name from your mailing list as I no longer have any use for your products. After spending nearly twenty years of my life as a nicotine addict, during which time I wasted thousands of dollars on your cigarettes, I quit smoking a little over four years ago. I will never spend another cent on tobacco, no matter how many special offers I receive in the mail.
I doubt your accounting department has missed the paltry six dollars a day which they no longer receive from me. But I'd like to think they noticed when my Dad quit smoking. My dad was a much heavier smoker than I. He smoked more than two cartons a week of non-filtered Pall Malls. (He got hooked back when you guys were fishing with the serious bait.) My Dad quit on February 14th, 1986. He had a pack of your smokes in his chest pocket when my mother found him on the kitchen floor, dead from a massive heart attack. He was 49. How ironic for my mother to lose the love of her life on Valentine's Day. She misses him (and his income) even more than your accountants do.
I guess I don't actually believe the Marlboro empire ever felt any monetary effects from the loss of my Dad's patronage. But, as a member of several on-line smoking cessation support groups, I know of thousands of people who've quit smoking in the past 5 years, and I'm starting to think your company might be feeling a slightly noticeable dent in it's profits. Why else would you be chumming the waters with all of these special offer mailings. Twice in the past week I've found coupons in my mailbox from your company . A few days ago I even received a coupon for a "FREE" pack of smokes. (It was actually a "buy one pack and get another one for free" coupon.) But there's no such thing as free cigarettes. They all come with a ball and chain attached.
Don't put the yacht up for sale yet. I'm sure the guys down in the advertising department are working on several new ideas to make your products attractive to new customers. I have to admit those guys are good at what they do. Every day millions of people pay up to seven dollars a pack for a product which they burn to ashes, causing themselves and everything around them to stink and turn yellow. It's amazing to me, but I'm sure today thousands of people will purchase their first pack. Who knows, they may even "buy one and get another one for free".
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