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Now the Food and Drug Administration wants to scare people with graphic images on cigarette boxes to help people stop smoking (“Scare ‘Pack’tics,” June 22).

Why stop there? How about putting images of fat people on Big Mac wrappers?

T. De Julio

New Rochelle

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I’m getting so tired of this ridiculous crusade against smokers.

Nobody is forcing car dealers to put pictures of crash victims in the windows of their vehicles. And you won’t find Charlie Sheen’s face on alcohol bottles.

Our government won’t even force the food industry to label products containing genetically modified ingredients.

Why should we be forced to look at graphic photos, when smokers already pay obscene amounts in cost and taxes for a legal product?

Gary Taustine

Manhattan

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I am pleased with the FDA’s decision.

Though one of the stated goals is to encourage nicotine addicts to quit, that noble aim shall remain elusive, as it is extraordinarily difficult to quit once one is addicted.

The campaign will be most effective as a deterrent to young people to engage in this lethal addiction, and can serve as a counterweight to the tobacco barons’ shameful efforts to portray smoking as glamorous and hip.

I dismiss the criticism of those who chide the government for heavy-handed tactics.

The government has a right and a duty to promote good health and longevity and to take reasonable steps to facilitate them.

What would be said about a society that helplessly and impotently stood by as a devastating, lethal drug addiction is passed from generation to generation?

O. Spiegler

Upper Saint Clair, Pa.