(Please Note: This letter is dated 6/6/02)
Dear
Steve,
It was your initial email to me via our web site that initiated my response to it, for we
normally do NOT solicit such links and/or cooperation on our own, now, enjoying our own
high level of critical acclaim and recognition of our work.
A copy of what I assume was your email to us first is enclosed at the bottom of this
email.
I appreciate your having gotten back in touch with me, anyway.
I believe you are incorrect with respect to your assessment as to how The Shuster Project
could possibly have any negative impact upon your work, as we actually touch upon the
waste and litter at the corporate/field level with respect to their negligence in dealing
with it in a fraudulent manner that considerably and negatively impacts municipal waste
removal services not only here in the States but probably there as well.
See this:
http://www.rxshuster.org/municipa.htm
The waste depicted in this section represents a far greater tonnage of tobacco industry
waste than is being generated by a smokers careless disposal of cigarette butts into the
environment, which is by no means taking away from that issue also.
All I am trying to draw, with the analogy of the above hyperlink, is that your
organization and mine DO have common ground with which to exchange ideas and dialogue.
Our organization is most definitely NOT an "anti-smoking" or a
"quit-smoking" group, but rather an organization that is addressing the fraud
and false claims within the tobacco industry that negatively impacts many municipalities,
states and countries, of which your issue is but one and of which issues we address by the
dozens upon dozens.
With that said, I had assumed your level of excitement and realization of our commonality,
as based upon your initial email to me via OUR web site, would have been quite high and
accepting, but I see clearly that it is not.
We generally never have any interest to pursue linkage and cooperation on our own where,
for whatever the reason or misunderstanding, it wasn't wanted or accepted, so we wish you
continued success with your excellent work.
My only question would be why, then, did you contact us to begin with, if indeed you were
the "Steve" who contacted US via our web site, asking that we review your web
site and, what we assumed, was an interest in your part for us to seek possible
cooperation with one another?
It's an interesting question, indeed.
Sincerely,
RXShuster
The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues
http://www.rxshuster.org/
C/o
177 Andrew Avenue
Naugatuck, CT 06770-4359
Telephone: 1-(203)-723-1690
Fax: 1-(801)-705-3078
Toll Free Voice Mail: 1-(877)-547-1908
Email: RShus177@aol.com
Join my "Save the Rainforest" Team at:
http://rainforest.care2.com/welcome?w=226471792
The
email WE received that prompted my response to it which generated your startling response:
Subj: BUTTsOUT (get1on1)
Date: 06/06/2002 2:02:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: steve@buttsout.net
To: RShus177@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Check out the website BUTTsOUT.net info on cigarette butt litter and reduction
in Australia
This web site is equipped with the
"Get 1 on 1" guest response system.
If I am in my office, you can contact me in "real time."
If I am out of my office you will be prompted to send me an e-mail.
I will get back to you as quickly as I can.
