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Jump to full article: Fresno (CA) Bee, 2008-08-30
Author: Sara Kelly
Intro: Once again, history repeats itself. During World War II, soldiers were given free cigarettes, dooming many of the survivors to lifetimes of nicotine addiction and lingering death by carcinogens.
Today, we don't have the luxury of ignorance about the health risks of tobacco. Yet the "Generous Valley" (letter Aug. 26) sends poison in the form of cigars to soldiers in the Middle East.
Micah Johnson of Cigars, Ltd. is a war profiteer selling cigars to be shipped as "joy from home." Aren't the troops in enough danger already? To say nothing of Mr. Johnson's future business from addicted soldiers if they return home.
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