Letter: Instead of banning soda, how about tobacco?

To the editor:

With so many of our politicians concerned for the health and well-being of their constituents, with their laws on banning large sugary drinks, hiding cigarettes behind the counters as well as banning “energy drinks” from teenagers, I have to wonder why not one of these elected officials has ever proposed a bill to ban the sale of all tobacco products as well?

With the various diseases and physical problems that tobacco causes, along with the billions of dollars in associated treatment costs, there is a compelling reason to stop the use of tobacco. Yet these same “concerned” public officials continue playing to the news media instead of just saying: “No more tobacco will be sold here!”

Thomas W. Smith, Jamesport

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