DECLARE WAR ON CIGARS

Real Americans should be alarmed over a dramatic increase in Cuban
cigar-related crime. Here is a drug more harmful than marijuana according
to some, yet cigar criminals only receive fines. What message does this
send to our children?

Let's apply the same tactics that have been so successful in our war on
(some) drugs. Let's go after the growers, dealers and users with the same
SWAT teams and severe penalties. Let's institute mandatory cigar-testing of
school children, welfare recipients and government employees before this
addictive, cancerous drug destroys their lives.

I am shocked and dismayed that Star editorialists have, by their silence,
proven to be soft on cigars.

Such non-action is tantamount to condoning drug addiction, drug-related
crime, communism, the breakdown of the family and the shredding of the
fabric of society.

Don Berry