Word Use of a Prophet Confirmed in This Week's Ruling

   Coming to a television or magazine near you -- I kid you not -- an ad from the tobacco companies saying something like, "We deliberately deceived you, the American public, into thinking tobacco is not nearly as harmful as it really is. Tobacco kills. Smoking kills. It kills more people than murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car crashes and alcohol -- combined. It kills 1,200 people -- daily. Second-hand smoke, alone, kills more than 3,000 people a year."
   Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that the tobacco companies must publish such an ad. 
   This will be a complete back stroke for the cigarette makers. In the past, their ads have been luring and alluring. Some have suggested their ads have been the "evils and designs . . . of conspiring men in the last days" spoken of in a prophecy given about 180 years ago by Joseph Smith.
   Conspiring men, did he say? 
   This court case confirms the use of that term, stamping it upon the tobacco companies -- for the case was brought up through a law called the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970. Those who have been saying Joseph Smith was referring to the tobacco companies, and to their ads, and to the tobacco companies being conspiring men, now have this court case to point to. In that it was brought forth through the Racketeering and Corrupt Organizations Act, that does indicate evil, designing, and conspiring men.
  
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