NEW FRONT IN DRUG WAR

Tobacco is often the first addictive substance abused by those who later go
on to destroy their lives, and the lives of people around them, with other
substances. This is one key missing link in the War on Drugs.

Tobacco has no significant benefits and is deadly on a massive scale.
Rather than seek to raise money by taxing tobacco, it is time to go after
the tobacco farmers. I see little difference between them and growers of
cocaine. They know their product is deadly but keep producing it out of
greed and disregard for the lives of others.

F. Stephen Masek
Mission Viejo