Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] Taboo
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:10:41 +0200
References: <CAH-xPreocD7nAGUQ5_JhJgxAk=nEm-FnbbWnz3qiH9LafHAxiQ@mail.gmail.com>

As an ex-smoker (5 years now) I can understand your sentiments. However, I 
doubt that many young people read Popular Photography, so there is probably 
little harm done.

Cheers,
Nathan

On 21 Apr 2014, at 18:32, Roger Rubin <vroger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all:
> Sorry for my protracted silence- but as those of you who I see regularly
> know my time is very limited. I just this minute saw something that
> prompted me to write. In the latest issue of Popular Photography Magazine,
> on page 45, they are running an advert for" 100%Addictive-Free Natural
> Tobacco"
> 
> As I write this, I have a good friend, at Sloan Kettering Memorial
> Hospital, terminal with Lung Cancer. I find this advert patently and
> personally offensive. With all we know and the plethora of young people who
> subscribe to Pop Photo, I believe that this is a very wrong message and I
> feel the Magazine Publishers should be roundly condemned. Sorry to be so
> preachy, but this offends me greatly.
> 
> Bests: Roger Rubin (vroger)
> 
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