Menthol study just promotes agenda

So the good people at the Harvard School of Public Health have concluded that the evil tobacco companies controlled the levels of menthol in cigarettes so as to appeal to younger smokers, hoping to get them hooked later on higher levels of menthol as they became "true" adult smokers.

Sounds like the tobacco companies did their homework. Wow, what a discovery these researchers made.

Shame on those evil tobacco companies for trying to market their products.

Hmmmm, are there any other companies out there that have done the same thing and that having done so, it has proven to have a detrimental effect on our society.

Hmmmm, maybe the breakfast cereal companies should be studied by this group of esteemed individuals.

Many years ago these companies made plain old everyday corn flakes, but their research indicated children loved "sugar" so they developed products like "Frosted Flakes" (with high sugar content) to lure or hook our children on sugar, adding to our now nationwide addiction and subsequent obesity problems.

But the Harvard group's agenda is obviously about anti-smoking because that gets their work published.

Just another sad case of promoting an agenda.

Sheldon Tabas

Mount Prospect