Letter: Governor should not play politics with tobacco funds

Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999 | 12:24 p.m.

I, like many others, have fought to be included in a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco industry, regarding secondhand smoke in the workplace.

Guinn will take the money for smoke-related health care and use it where he thinks it will help him in the polls. I decided to write this reply after reading Mike Penick's letter to the editor.

"Hard-working students" will get scholarships and grants and will go to college out of state. The part about "student pledge?" He can't be serious. If he is, he must be one of those hard-working students who's looking for someone else to pay for his education.

The money from the tobacco funds will educate kids against smoking, so let's help the people who need help with medical expenses now.

Alan Korman

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