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Letters to the Editor: Tobacco industry is harmful and deceptive
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<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=”Content-Type” CONTENT=”text/html;CHARSET=ISO-8859-1″></HEAD><BODY><P><FONT COLOR=black>Dear Jerel,</P><P>I appreciate the fact you are willing to express your views every week in a public forum. No matter how much anyone may disagree with what is said, people that think and write about these issues should be commended. </P><P>Although I respect the fact that you express your views, I do see some things I think are faulty. First of all, you call Big Tobacco an “industry that is making an honest dollar.”</P><P>Any industry that can sit and tell bold face lies to Congress and say their product is non-addictive is not what I would call honest. If you do, I will be sure to never do business with you.</P><P>I also find it odd that out of all the reports produced by what you claim is “the greatest nation in the history of the world” that you have to go overseas to find one report that supports your claim. Out of the hundreds of reports that link health problems with both smoking and second hand smoke, you find one to support your claim, but call the rest of us radicals. Hmmm. In America we walk a fine line. It is not illegal to do harmful things to your own body, yes the government capitalizes by taxing these products, and why not, smoking is a choice. It is bad for you, but we won’t tell you to quit. We will give you the honest facts. I would have a little more sympathy for Big Tobacco if it hadn’t lied to the American public for 30 years. As far as your correlation of Big Tobacco and fast food, I think you should have come up with something better. I have never heard of any kids being killed with a second hand taco.</P><P> </P><P>Duke Staggs</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>