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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
<jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
> When people boycott a product, it isn't because not having the product
> is better than having the product. That's clearly untrue: despite the
> reasons for the boycott, the product has some value.

That's because you don't call it boycotting when the product has no
value. I'm not in the habit of purchasing used cigarette ash, and I
suspect you're not buying any either, but that's not a boycott.

ChrisA