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December 3, 2002

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Letters to the Editor

Basic rights of smokers being trampled
Michelle Lamb-Alexander
Network administrator

Have we forgotten that smokers are Americans, too?

How is it we suddenly have no rights?

Perhaps if some of the tobacco money was to help people stop smoking there might be a bigger success rate.

But no, we die from smoking cigarettes or heat exhaustion from being forced outside at 110 degrees, or being taxed to death. What a choice!

The real choice comes when we choose to quit at our own expense.
As law-abiding citizens we are punished in ways most prison inmates are not.

It is not about self-control, it is about being controlled.

Otherwise the tobacco companies would be forced to stop making and selling something so deadly, the same as the makers of Fen-Phen.

Even on the MCC campus, we have a smoking section in the sun.
When the non-smokers get a mist system covered patios with vending machines.

What is up?

The only thing lacking is the posters “why educate a smoker who’s dying soon.”