POOR COMPARISON

In her letter criticizing the distribution of free crack-pipe
mouthpieces to addicts, Debbie McKinnon asked if the government will
hand out free beer next.

This illustrates how drug hysteria can damage our ability to reason
logically. She emphasizes the high cost of treating hepatitis C, while
at the same time condemning a policy that is guaranteed to reduce the
incidence of that disease.

A more appropriate beer analogy would entail distributing free
glasses, not free beer -- not to mention that beer drinking has no
connection with the spread of communicable diseases.

George Kosinski, Gibsons