Serious illness should never be made light of, nor should it be used as a tool for government propaganda ("Labels Give Cigarette Packs a Ghoulish Makeover," U.S. News, June 22). Yet that is exactly what the government is doing by mandating graphic images of ill people on cigarette packs.
Not only have these "nanny" approaches not worked where previously tried, but no other industry in America has had to endure such draconian, loss-of-freedom decrees.
What's next? Photos of diseased obese people on candy-bar wrappers? Diseased livers on wine bottles? Burned human skin on fast-food coffee cups?
Dan Steven Locklair
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 