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Rosenthal said the president acts as a spokesperson for the society on national and international issues. During his term, Rosenthal said, he hopes to focus his efforts on national tobacco policy and, particularly, any settlements between Congress and the tobacco industry...
...implicit boosterism ("Who do we appreciate--Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!") is "awful." In fairness, though, he could have mentioned some of the Tridentine excrescences that led to the Second Vatican Council's reforms: hymns of stunning vapidity and priests muttering their way through Low Mass with the graceless speed of tobacco auctioneers...
...things--heroes, villains, conflicts--that we've had to inflate little things and pretend they're big. Our statesmen used to revile Hitler, Mussolini, the godless Reds--large and sinister enemies who wanted to take over the world. Now the the focus of evil in American life is...the tobacco industry. The fellows who make cigarettes may be--indeed are--mendacious, but they do produce a legal product that earlier generations found alternately pleasurable and obnoxious but never evil. Our parents and our grandparents worried about polio epidemics. Today the great public-health crisis is the secondhand smoke from...
...absolutely agree with Charles Krauthammer's "The New Prohibitionism" [ESSAY, Oct. 6], which points out that the frenzied crusade against tobacco has allowed alcohol to get a free ride. Why do we accept the spread of alcoholism without trying to campaign against it? The fact that "alcohol is far more deadly than tobacco to innocent bystanders" should move politicians, the medical community and all others concerned to take action. DONALD J. DEFRAIN Santee, Calif...
Krauthammer asks a final question: "If you knew your child was going to become addicted to either alcohol or tobacco, which would you choose?" My answer: alcohol. I have been drinking alcohol for 60 years, but if I hadn't quit smoking 30 years ago, I would have died long ago. JOHN T. DWYER San Diego...