Lucky Strike or unlucky stroke?Leafing through the current Bay Area Reporter print issue [April 29] I was rather amazed to see a full-page ad supporting cigarette smoking.
I never noticed this before, assuming that this weekly rag did not encourage and promote smoking in the gay community. I guess I was wrong.
Even during these times of COVID-19, when our health and science professionals list smoking as a major cause of infection — not to mention tobacco use linked to nearly every disease imaginable — the B.A.R.
chooses to ignore the evidence and push the product, choosing blood money over health.Hmmm, maybe it's just time to dump the publication, once and for all.