Tobacco enforcement is wrong priority

Linn County Health Department spending a $2 million grant to hire people to find a way to get smokers from smoking outside where kids can see them is a waste of money. Who is going to enforce this? Do we call the police when we see a smoker who could be in the sight of a kid or do we just have the heath department get another grant?

Here in Cedar Rapids, the two biggest problems with kids are over-the-counter drugs being misused and meth. Shouldn't we be concentrating money for the elimination of the drugs that devastate (or end) our children's lives? How many underage car crashes, sexual assaults, suicides, thefts, school dropouts or unwanted pregnancies are directly related to tobacco?

If we want to be a tobacco-free county/state/country, the government should make it illegal for everyone, plus stop funding the tobacco growers. Until then, we may just

as well roll up that

$2 million and smoke it.

Kelly Ross

Cedar Rapids