Pubdate: Sat, 19 Apr 2014
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
Copyright: 2014 The Dallas Morning News, Inc.
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Author: Dave Johnson
Page: 18A

STOP THE STARTER DRUG

Re: "Heroin overdoses on rise - Crackdown on access to pills has
fueled trend," Sunday news story.

Pictures DO speak louder than words in your story. Pictured just under
the title is an addict with her starter drug - the one we know as
tobacco. Indeed, tobacco leads to abuse of other drugs, including
alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and heroin.

One solution to decrease drug usage would be to ban the tobacco drug,
which kills 14,000 addicts and another 1,800 innocent people (who were
exposed to toxic tobacco smoke) around the world, every day.

In the U.S., the tobacco pushers and their lethal drug cost our
economy $200 billion every year. The solution is to eliminate this
drug from society and prosecute the people who still push the killer
weed.

Dave Johnson, Arlington
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