To the editor,
Geoffrey Allen’s letter last week about duMaurier ads leads me to
ask: Is your duMaurier ad in violation of the Tobacco Products Control
Act? The research I did implies that the Supreme Court affirmed the
legality of TPCA in 1995, and it still applies today. So does the TPCA
outlaw these ads? Are you breaking the law? Do you think the TPCA
infringes some right of yours or duMaurier’s to free speech? Are you a
money hungry beast flouting the law while trying to pay the bills? Is
this a ploy to get media attention rather than paying for it via
advertising?
—Mike Ruxton, Eastern Passage
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2009.