Michael’s Message

If George Michael “won’t touch anything that has to do with alcohol or cigarettes because he has a tremendous amount of influence over kids and he doesn’t want them to think that it’s cool” (Paul Grein’s July 30 article, “Suds ‘n’ Bucks ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll”), why does he smoke in his video “Father Figure”?

CHARLES A. WILSON

Port Hueneme