Proud tobacco worker
Regarding your stance on the tobacco tax (Jan. 26):
I wonder when the Fish Wrap is going to address alcohol consumption in the same manner it does tobacco?
Well, anyway, I'd like to say, I'm a proud tobacco worker at Lorillard Tobacco Co. It amuses me the way my company is treated in your opinion columns. But what amazes me more is every year, agencies like the United Way and the Red Cross are at our plant pleading for help. Well, just so you know, I (1) do not subscribe to this paper, (2) spend the money this tobacco company pays me every chance I get in Randolph County, not Guilford, and (3) I challenge all tobacco workers to do the same.
Everyone has it in for the tobacco industry, which produces a legal product, but I wonder who would cry the loudest if the companies moved and took their tax dollars with them?
Jeff Marshall
Greensboro
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Let me help you guys pack and take your "legal product" that kills people everyday out of our area. It would improve our quality of life around here!
Posted on February 5, 2005 10:43 AM
Oh no it doesn't. If you had only to eat what your government allocated you on a monthly basis you too would have put your life on the line to vote. Iraqi's had to go vote if they wanted their rations for the month approved. Ted Kennedy is trying to do even the writer a favor but apparently the writer believes everything the press says. They might start watching a few Congressional Hearings instead. The press and the media do not have the same concerns that the majority of american's have. They pick and choose what they want to report. Some are even being paid to sell Bush's snake oil policies. The writer is just another example how easily american's can be fooled.
Rebecca Thompson
Burlington, NC
Posted on February 8, 2005 12:44 AM