Source: Daily Arizona Star Contact: Pubdate: January 16, 1998 DECLARE WAR ON CIGARS Real Americans should be alarmed over a dramatic increase in Cuban cigar-related crime. Here is a drug more harmful than marijuana according to some, yet cigar criminals only receive fines. What message does this send to our children? Let's apply the same tactics that have been so successful in our war on (some) drugs. Let's go after the growers, dealers and users with the same SWAT teams and severe penalties. Let's institute mandatory cigar-testing of school children, welfare recipients and government employees before this addictive, cancerous drug destroys their lives. I am shocked and dismayed that Star editorialists have, by their silence, proven to be soft on cigars. Such non-action is tantamount to condoning drug addiction, drug-related crime, communism, the breakdown of the family and the shredding of the fabric of society. Don Berry