Pubdate: Tue, 18 Feb 2014
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV)
Copyright: 2014 Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Author: John Tominsky

HOFFMAN'S DEATH

To the editor:

Philip Seymour Hoffman became yet another victim of the drug culture, 
leaving behind grief and sorrow for his loved ones. Over the decades 
that the drug culture has been in existence in this country, 
thousands of lives have ended because of the poison people put into 
their bodies in the name of getting high or escaping reality. Three 
people have been arrested and arraigned in Mr. Hoffman's death. 
Lawyers will come to the rescue, and after a slap on the wrist, the 
beat goes on.

I knew two people years ago who started on recreational marijuana and 
graduated to cocaine. They had one thing in common: both committed 
suicide by overdosing on cocaine after financially destroying 
themselves and their families.

Drug dealers, to my way of thinking, are nothing more than human 
scum. You fools who smoke marijuana for fun or medical reasons make 
me laugh. You stand an excellent chance of getting lung cancer, as 
much as any cigarette smoker. Mr. Hoffman was 46 years old at his 
death. He looked a lot older.

Have fun puffing, snorting and injecting, you drug-culture people. 
The price you will pay in the end will bring you back to reality, or 
to the undertaker.

JOHN TOMINSKY LAS VEGAS
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