I saw a commercial the other night that just made me laugh, then cry. Philip Morris wants us to believe that they care about our children. They sponsor the “We Card” program and help train cashiers on how to check IDs. I am so impressed. Not only that, but they put out a brochure on “how to talk to your kids not smoking.” Like a parent needs a pamphlet to do that!
Their company puts out a product that has killed millions of people. My father just died from emphysema last month and he smoked a Philip Morris cigarette brand for 60 years. Funny they don’t have a pamphlet on how to care for a patient who has gone into respiratory failure. How about training family members on how to handle their grief while watching the person you love more than life slowly suffocate to death or drown in their own mucus? How about they send people money to reimburse their medical bills for all the smoking-related illnesses and deaths?
They have a Web site we can visit so they can help us keep cigarettes out of our children’s hands. Isn’t that just so wonderful and caring of them? They need to put their money where their mouth is. If they really wanted to help kids, they would go out of business and stop making cigarettes, so their mommies and daddies would still be alive. They have paid millions of dollars for this new advertising campaign to make us think that they actually care about all the people their product has killed. I think we should all “log on” to their Web site and tell them what we think they can do with their product and their “concern and care” for our kids. Put that in your pipe, Philip Morris, and smoke it!
Susan Martin
Everett
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