BLAME NUKES, NOT CIGS

A question for Dr. Jeffrey Wagener: From 1945 until the early '70s, the
world's nuclear powers detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons in the
atmosphere. The consequences of those tests will be with us for literally
millennia. Those radioactive isotopes become a part of everything in trace
amounts and are the chief culprit behind the cancer plague that can be
statistically proven to have started in the early 1950s.

Government scientists know this is true, but they will never acknowledge
that radioactive fallout from nuclear tests decades ago is killing people
because the liability is just too great. You can prove it to yourself by
taking a Geiger counter to places where runoff sediment collects and see
for yourself.

While no one is claiming that smoking tobacco (or anything else, for that
matter) is good for you, that alone is not responsible for the dramatic
upturn in exotic and aggressive cancers. Big tobacco was just a deep pocket
that was easily demonized and has become the patsy of the century.

If we are going to form a policy banning cigarette smoking, why not go all
the way and completely prohibit the possession of any type of tobacco?
Let's form tobacco police units to arrest and throw the smoking offenders
in jail. Force them into treatment like we currently do to marijuana users.
Throw those who refuse to quit smoking tobacco in prisons. Let's build more
prisons, creating a tobacco-military-prison economy just as we do with
today's drugs.

In short, we can be a smoke-free country - but we cannot expect to be free.

GARY BODNAR

Lakewood