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LETTER: Smoking ads must be rejected 

But how ironic that this same paper had a sticker on the front page advertising for Smoker's Choice, and inside a full-page ad inviting people to a dessert-flavored hookah tasting! Obviously these sweet tobacco "treats" are meant to lure young people and other nonsmokers to get "hookahed" into a deadly habit.

I'm sure The Daily Star was paid handsomely for this full-page ad. If you really believe, as you say in your editorial, that "Smoking is a disgusting and unhealthy habit," why don't you follow the example of the county and state fairs and refuse to take money that is tainted by this despicable and loathsome business?

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