Poll on Smoking
Only the tobacco industry could have the gall to poll 1,500 adults (less than one in 100,000 or exactly 30 per state) and announce that a “majority” of Americans do not support higher cigarette taxes or tougher anti-smoking legislation (Tobacco Institute ad, Business, Jan. 9).
If so, how come Proposition 99 passed despite a massive and misleading campaign by tobacco companies?
The statistics showing the damage and financial burdens smokers inflict on others as well as themselves are too dreary and familiar to bear repeating--not that they’d impress an industry that still denies smoking causes lung cancer.
MAX SHAPIRO
Los Angeles
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