Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 05, 2021

“Facts? Facts can’t match up against our marketing teams.”

To own the Libs you have to disregard facts. It has been shown that facts clearly have a liberal bias.

tobacco is going away gradually. good riddance.

Poor Billy’s arguments are going up in smoke!

Under the circumstances, choking seems appropriate.

Well, in this case, the numbers are saying that 98% of the tobacco industry are pieces of shìt. Doesn’t seem like a lie to me.

Mr. Butts is using the alternative facts argument. Can’t win against that.

Facts don’t lie, but liars use facts too. Living is hard.

To paraphrase Maynard G. Krebs*: “Fa-acts?”

- Hippie character on the early TV program Dobie Gillis who was petrified by the word “work” and whose voice broke whenever he said it.

If you think he’s choking now, wait until he tries his first cig…

Besides death, he might want to throw in statistics about smoking related illnesses

How about, “Billy, use your common sense!”? Better yet Billy, throw him out of your classroom so he lands lighted end first. The janitor can sweep him up as the butt he is.

Would a talking, cartoon camel lie to you? Is Bugs Bunny a wiseass rabbit?

“Who ya gonna believe, kid? Me, or your own eyes?”

Use the force Billy. These are not the facts you’re looking for.

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics, as Twain said.

Numbers don’t lie? That reminds me of the old saying “Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure.”

Man the water buckets.

SOME HOPE DEPT:They don’t include ashtrays and cigarette lighters in cars anymore.

Mr. Butts is open to a real sharp kick to the filter.

Mr. Butts just demonstrated that numbers CAN lie, when they’re misapplied…

Billy, just butt him out with your shoe or chalkboard. Try giving it to your nun teacher.

So THIS is where the climate change denialism started. “If 98% of them agree it MUST be true” which is countered by “that’s what the tobacco industry says about cigarettes being good for you”

We are here at the birth place of alternative facts, though in would be around 20 years or so before Kelly Ann would call them that….

Time to put Joe Camel on the case.

Great companies are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor companies sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Liars. Damned Liars. Statistics.