Salesman Starts `Just Say No' Campaign to Fight Cyanide in Fish

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 24, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Unknown to many of the millions of Americans who enjoy home aquariums, most of the tropical fish they buy are heavily laced with cyanide, and Barnet Shutman, a New York salesman, thinks he may have Nancy Reagan to thank for inspiration in new efforts to do something about it.

"It came to me like a flash," the 28-year-old Shutman recalled. " `Just say no to cyanide.' "

Shutman buys and sells tropical fish, and the new slogan is part of a crusade that his company, based in Long Island, N.Y., is about to launch in one of America's fastest-growing hobby industries.

The problem he is trying to ...

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