Unfiltered Comments on Smoking Cartoon
Never did I think that I would agree with a Michael Ramirez cartoon, but his cartoon of an ashtray filled with the cigarette butts of well-known Americans who were brought to an unnecessary death because of smoking was a masterpiece (Commentary, April 9)! My question for Ramirez is why does he continue to lavish praise on his beloved Republican Party -- which continues its cozy relationships with the tobacco industry that killed not only these notable Americans but hundreds of thousands of their brothers and sisters every year?
Donald A. Bentley
La Puente
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Ramirez needs to apologize to Peter Jennings for his insensitive cartoon and to those of us who respect this wonderful journalist. Jennings is alive but his name is on a cigarette with everybody who is deceased in an ashtray with his cigarette waiting to fall in. How dare he get away with this; he needs to be replaced.
Daisy Newsom
Inglewood
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