Three cheers for Auburn fight against tobacco

Thursday, February 8, 2007 9:29 AM EST

I've been following and fighting tobacco over 20 years.
The decision by your Auburn school district to discourage tobacco ads in magazines in school district libraries is so clever.

Awesome!

Regretfully, it would be light-years before my home state of Alabama connects those kind of healthy dots.

Please remember we did give you Gomer, Goober, and Gump! Get it?

Mike Sawyer, M.Div.

Birmingham, Ala.

Sawyer is executive director of

I Will Never Use Tobacco

The Citizens' Say

There are 5 comment(s)

karl logan wrote on Feb 8, 2007 12:45 PM:

" BY the way, DD, to show you how misinformed and behind the times you are, AL gore explains in "AN Inconvenient Truth" that he USED TO rent his land to cancer growers but had an attack of conscience and no longer extends that misguided option to those death-peddlers; I guess you were getting another super-sized popcorn during that part, eh? In that case, all's forgiven.. "

check your mixed felllings wrote on Feb 7, 2007 8:02 PM:

" I truly believe in everyones rights,but the problem is our health care cost are the worst in the world solely because of tobacco use. I wish I could find out how much money the people without insurance who smoke and need treatment because of it, we pay for and what the total dollar amount a year in NYS that is paid for.I think it would shock everyone. "

karl logan wrote on Feb 7, 2007 6:55 PM:

" Free will is one thing, but engineering a addictive nicotine delivery system which is chemically altered, enhanced and designed to latch onto the addiction centers of the brain removes the whole idea of it being "free will". Just ask any poor sap who's tried to quit--I think the last figures I saw for it were that only 5% actually are successful in quitting. That's not due to lack of desire' its due to Machiavellan, murderous greed and callousness. "

mixed feelings wrote on Feb 7, 2007 5:41 PM:

" ok, where I can say that I am a firm tobacco hater. I can say that I would fight to the end for the right of a person to do as they please. Tobacco is a person's choice, and no one has a right to try and stop another from doing something. I'm sorry but that is being a dictator. "

DD wrote on Feb 7, 2007 1:27 PM:

" Big Al Gore is gonna hate the board. Big Al rents his land to big tobacco grow tobacco for our children you know. "

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