[Winona Online Democracy]
I don't want to censor anyone's right to put ads up where they want to.
It seems ironic, though, that the section that keeps tabs on the top
athletes
in the country, people in excellent physical condition, is wrapped in this
particular type of product. It would be like the NRA putting a commercial
on
during Disney's "Bambi." NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH PEOPLE WHO
HUNT.
MANY HUNTERS ARE NORMAL, INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. I'M ONLY POINTING OUT THE
IRONY.
Yours in brevity, -Clay Templeton
[Winona Online Democracy]
As a none smoker now for over twenty years but one who started smoking when
I was eleven I agree in part with Gene. Anyone who for the last forty
years hasn't known that smoking was bad for their health must have been on
a island in the middle of nowhere. People would have needed to be brain
dead including kids to not know that smoking is bad for them.but "they"
have decided to try to beat the odds. I agee with Gene that beating up on
tobacco companies is getting old.
As a consumer we all have choices and if not patronizing a restaurant that
allows smoking or to stop subscribing to newspapers that print any ad that
is offensive causes them to lose revenue or puts them out of business
that's the way to solve the problem. By the same token if a restaurant
wants to serve only smokers and posts that on the doors so that anyone
wanting a job or wanting to patronize that restaurant that should be their
call.
Part of democracy is choice even though sometimes the choices "people" make
are dumb.
Paul Double
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