By no means are you cowardly Kate!! In fact what you have done is very brave and VERY commendable; sticking up for your friends and your beliefs!!! You have put yourself right into someone elses line of fire, taking the bullet for the other person so to speak. I find that very honourable and couragious to say the least!! Something does not necessarily have to affect us directly to make us not wish to use it anymore. It is many times the result of what happens to others, friends, associates, just folks in general, that can make us deter from using something. The AD for a wonderful shiny, colorful, nice smelling shampoo can boast all it wants about how great it is, if enough people that used it come forward to tell you how it turned their hair green and made it smell like sardines, I am sure you would not rush out and buy it; in fact you would dump whatever supply you may already have of it!!! ~3DSprite :-)