Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As an ex-smoker (5 years now) I can understand your sentiments. However, I doubt that many young people read Popular Photography, so there is probably little harm done. Cheers, Nathan On 21 Apr 2014, at 18:32, Roger Rubin <vroger at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all: > Sorry for my protracted silence- but as those of you who I see regularly > know my time is very limited. I just this minute saw something that > prompted me to write. In the latest issue of Popular Photography Magazine, > on page 45, they are running an advert for" 100%Addictive-Free Natural > Tobacco" > > As I write this, I have a good friend, at Sloan Kettering Memorial > Hospital, terminal with Lung Cancer. I find this advert patently and > personally offensive. With all we know and the plethora of young people who > subscribe to Pop Photo, I believe that this is a very wrong message and I > feel the Magazine Publishers should be roundly condemned. Sorry to be so > preachy, but this offends me greatly. > > Bests: Roger Rubin (vroger) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/