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People are not totally reasonable. Those who like to perâ€" petuate the semiâ€"rationalist notion that people will change their behavior if shown the fact, would do well to look at those who serve the dictator Tobacco. No major medical or health agency questions the fact that each year 30,000 Canaâ€" dians die prematurely from the effects of smoking. If some new food additive, automobile defect or drug â€" except alcoâ€" hol, of course â€" could be linked to emphysema, chronic bronâ€" chitis, lung cancer and heart disease as closely as has ciâ€" garette smoking, a public outcry would explode and perhaps even the government would be sparked into action. But still the dollars turn into cigarettes which turn into smoke. Please, don‘t confuse the facts. In the late 1960s and early 1970s smoking rates began to drop, except for teenagers, especially those in their early teens. Not yet old enough to sense their mortality, those who straddle childhood and adulthood seem immune to the enâ€" diess stream of scientific evidence, while being supersensiâ€" tive to peer influence. The litany of chemical substances asâ€" sociated with cigarette smoking â€" nicotine, tars, carbon monoxide, cadmium; nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, forâ€" maldehyde, hydrogen sulphide â€" fail to dispell the compellinâ€" g power of those heroes who suck smoldering leaves. Tobaccoland has succeeded in creating an image â€" that hot smoke is cool, macho yet superâ€"feminine. Nonsense! That image.is distorted! Smoking should be linked to disabiâ€" lity and death, to ugliness, rasping coughs, dragon breath, dried skin, squinting eyes, yellowed teeth and finger and blackened lungs. But the counterâ€"offensive is under way. Tired of being lost in a blearyâ€"eyed haze, manv nonâ€"smokers are becom;ng downright aggressive, puncturing myths and demanding their right to breathe clean air. As the puffers wheeze and rasp their way toward the back of the bus, perhaps those short on height and years will get the point and prove that they at least are not short on brains. Letters to the editor To the Editor: This is the first time we have ever written a letter to the editor of a newspaper; but as concerned residents of the Waterloo electoral riding, we feel very strongly about the following issue. Mr. Frank Epp, a professor at the University of Waterloo who was recently selected as the Liberal party‘s candidate in the upcoming federal election, promoted himself during the nomination campaign as an advisor to the recent Conâ€" servative government on foreign affairs concerning the Middle East. Professor Epp‘s position on Middle Eastern affairs (based on views which are published in books he has written‘!) is clearly sympathetic towards the objectives and the beliefs of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Knowâ€" ing that the PLO have inddlged in brutal acts of terrorism against innocent civilians and that they have supported the taking of hostages at the U.S. embassy in Iran, we are deepâ€" ly concerned about Professor Epp‘s apparent sympathies with them. What we are most worried about is the possibility that if he is elected, Professor Epp might well have considerably Mr. Andrew‘s letter, which you published on January 16, is preposterous. It is absurd to suggest that the Government of Canada deficit is based on the ‘"Frenchification of Canaâ€" da."" Inflation, both inside and outside Canada, has been the major factor in the increase in government spending. If Mr. Andrew‘s statement was true, where has the money gone? M. Trudeau is not attempting to create a francophone Canada. He is following the instructions of the Official Lanâ€" guages Act (1969), which made French and English the ofâ€" ficial languages of Canada. This act was based on the direcâ€" tives of the Laurendeauâ€"Dunton Commission on Bilinâ€" gualism and Biculturalism (1963), and it was not M. Letter on Trudeau ‘preposterous‘ Where do Epp‘s sympathies lie? HAK!! COUGH!! â€"ENOUGH!! published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. .mdwm:-u-w,.- 225 Fairway Rd. $., Kitchener, Ont. address correspondence to Waterioo office : 92 King St. South, Waterioo, Ont., telephone 886â€"2830 M‘M”.udmhdho‘w.mmw. Poeee ies io ies pephig on Yong Swent or in Wkterion Sgars. Atpen Mondey subscriptions: $14 a year in Canada $16 a year in United States and Foreign Countries Publisher: Paul Winkier Editor: Howard Elliott more infilzence among politicians who may be too ready to listen to a selfâ€"styled "expert‘‘ on Middle East affairs. We feel that foreign policies influenced by Professor Epp‘s views might well be detrimental to Canada‘s longâ€"term inâ€" terests in standing up for democratic principles, human rights and human life in this troubled world. We worry that his apparently misconceived views might appeal too easily to those willing, for the sake of tranquil relations with naâ€" tions which finance the PLO‘s activities and which control our supplies of foreign oil, to trade away the values for which many dedicated Canadians fought and died. Trudeau, but the late Mr. Pearson who was Prime Minister Mr. Andrew states that there should be held a national at that time I would like to know where. Mr. Andréw learned that M. Trudeau suggested that "Quebecers had the right to deterâ€" mine that they and all their minorities would henceforth be Frenchâ€"speaking." I recommend to Mr. Andrew to read a little before he makes such remarks about the gallicanizaâ€" tion of Quebec. Under both the Official Language Act (Bill 22) and the French language Charter (Bill 101), anglophone Quebecers are guaranteed the right to have their descenâ€" dants sent to an English school. Although French is the ofâ€" ficial language of Quebec, it does not mean that everyone must now speak French. We appeal to Professor Epp to publicly explain his thinkâ€" ing, his views and his allegiances on foreign policy issues concerning the Middle East. We, and we are sure many Waâ€" terloo voters share our concern, want to know,where Proâ€" fessor Epp honestly stands on these questions. The possible costs of uninformed votes going to this man are frightening. % Yours sincerely, Mr. & Mrs. D.R. Haasâ€"Hawkings Comment To the Editor: Last November I received a pamphlet through the mail sent to me by the local representative of the Conservative party Mr. Walter McLean. After reading the pamphlet on his Report from Parliament, I asked him to answer two questions. One dealt with the selling of some Crown corâ€" porations and the seeond dealt with restoring growth, conâ€" fidence and jobs for our youth. & Apparently we got his answer when the budget was brought down. He had nothing in the bag except broken proâ€" mises, Now he is blaming his opponents for his downfall for not letting him have a chance to put his program into action. What program? office â€" not even the dog catchers job. We are now in the 1980‘s and to date I have received no reply to my questions. He aiso ignored a letter of mine when he was a minister and I might add that I received the same treatment from his leader Mr. Clark long before he became Prime Minister. (I wanted to know what bag of goodies he had to offer the Canadian people.) * Personally 1 have always felt that when your representaâ€" tives refuse to answer your questions such is not fit to hold Nothing but broken promises to offer? referendum on language policy in Canada. But language policy is a provincial matter. All that the Government of Canada can do is to ascertain that any language lawâ€"conâ€" travenes neither the Canadian Bill of Rights nor the British North America Act. > f Yours truly, Jolin Plaice W. D. Pope