To the editor,
I echo the concerns raised in last week’s letters about tobacco ads
in your paper. I meant to write in last summer when the full-page ads
started appearing every week. I’ll bet they pay you guys really well.
I’m familiar with tobacco companies’ mob-like status in advertising
circles from what I learned from my father’s former career with
Imperial Tobacco.
I would rather drop a quarter in the box to pick up a copy then give
them my audience—or moreover a kid audience—for their
loophole-finding marketing schemes.
—Will Vachon, Halifax
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This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2009.