Pubdate: Wed, 27 Jun 2012
Source: Nelson Star (CN BC)
Copyright: 2012 Black Press
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Author: Glenda Zwer

SMOKING IS UNWISE, PERIOD

This is in response to the letters mentioning that marijuana should 
be legalized.

It really surprises me that seemingly intelligent people seem to come 
up with this rhetoric. Cigarette smoking has been legal forever and 
the government has been raking in the tax money from the sales of 
tobacco and tobacco products. Yet for years there has been a movement 
underway to convince cigarette smokers that it is a shameful thing 
and that cigarette smoking is a burden on our health care costs.

I seem to remember that a number of years ago the government or our 
health care system was going to take cigarette companies to court in 
an effort to recoup some of the money that cigarette smoking costs to 
our health care.

Does anyone not see that the same thing is going to happen when 
people smoke marijuana? Cigarette smoking does not make us lazy and 
be unambitious. We know that smoking anything is bad for our lungs. Be real.

Glenda Zwer

Slocan
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