Groceries should just stop selling cigarettes

Sunday, February 7, 2010
Letter to the Editor
Daily Gazette

It has been irrefutably proven in federal court that Big Tobacco spends billions of dollars every year on marketing to encourage young people to try cigarette products [so they can] provide the replacement smokers their business needs to survive.

Why do they need replacements? Because their customers are dying early due to tobacco-related diseases. Congratulations to Price Chopper for covering and/or removing the displays and advertising on tobacco products and keeping their young customers safe from the persuasive and deadly marketing tactics of tobacco companies.

I applaud the efforts of Price Chopper and hope that perhaps someday the Golub family, like Wegmans, will make the wise decision to stop selling cigarettes and tobacco products altogether.

Deya Greer

Albany