BEST TACTIC IS TO MAKE TOBACCO ITEMS ILLEGAL

Smoking is a hot issue today, and it is good to see people doing their
smoking outside hospitals, schools and other public buildings. But who is
protecting our helpless children in the home from the harmful effects of
secondhand tobacco smoke?

Our children want to grow up and have healthy bodies; but who is concerned
for that, except outside the home, where we become hostile toward anyone
who pollutes our right to breathe fresh clean air.

The heart of the problem is not in trying to enforce smoke-free homes for
children, but rather making it illegal to sell or possess this harmful
substance, along with other substances that are on the law books.

And while we are at it America, let's do the same for alcohol. It was the
damnable alcoholic drink industry, the law legalizing it and a drunken
driver that instantly killed my son 15 years ago here in Huntington.

I am glad my home is tobacco-, smoke- and alcohol-free. Also, I am glad
that I was raised in a church 70 years ago, which had enough of God in it
to proclaim that smoking, drinking alcohol, swearing and stealing were
sinful. Repent, oh America, and God will bless us. Pastors, proclaim the truth!

Walter Hamilton
Barboursville