To the editor,
I read Geoffrey Allen’s letter about your decision to print an
advertisement for cigarettes. The reader expressed outrage at The
Coast’s willingness to disregard Canadian law and moral responsibility
and print a tobacco advertisement. I was further shocked to see the
same full-page advertisement featured again in last week’s paper. As a
long-time reader, I expect not to see such an advertisement again, and
a printed retraction explaining why The Coast would print it in the
first place. —Corey, Halifax
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2009.