Cigarette Legislation
Congress is currently considering damaging America’s export trade. As every international traveler knows, one product most revered and cherished abroad is the American cigarette.
HR 2779 proposes to destroy just that. Someone in Congress has the stupidity to suggest that the advertising of cigarettes in a foreign country by American manufacturers should be subjected to the same laws as they are subject to in the United States. Limiting American companies to American business restrictions as well as foreign restrictions is obviously going to pose an unfair handicap upon our American manufacturers.
If foreigners want to smoke, we should be pursuing their business. American cigarette manufacturers use tobacco, workers and capital from America. They should be limited by the same laws as their foreign competition in the foreign markets, and not any more laws by our politicians.
SCOTT A. McMILLAN, San Diego
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