Egads!!! He's smoking.. What will we tell the children?

[SoCalDem]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/columnists/mike_needs/10179027.htm


LA Times via AP
Some readers believed this photo of a marine smoking in Fallujaf after a battle glorified cigarette smoking.





Most look past the smoke, laud photo of weary Marine

By Mike Needs, Public Editor


``Why the front-page photo of a soldier with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth?'' asked John H. Ramey of Akron. ``One would hope that the editors had more sense than to show willfully negligent behavior on the part of a service person on the front page.''Dan McClusky of Akron agreed: ``I want you to pass congratulations to the person who chose that front-page picture. You just convinced 10,000 young people that it's OK to smoke.

``I have one simple objection, and it's not about the Marine. You could have picked another photo that didn't show smoking as looking so good.''If you saw Wednesday's front-page Iraq coverage, you probably remember the remarkable photo (right) criticized by Ramey, McClusky and several others. Taken by a photographer for the Los Angeles Times, the in-your-face photo of a bone-tired Marine in Fallujah said volumes about the hellish difficulties of war. In almost WWII-like imagery, it included a dangling cigarette, the smoke swirling up around his dirt-crusted face and battle-worn helmet.

Provocative, captivating, perhaps even disturbing -- the photo also prompted praise.

``It's a picture that spoke to me,'' said Carol Johnson of Fairlawn. ``It said, this is a soldier, bone-weary, taking a break, but `Mom, I'm OK.'

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[ShaneGR]

1. Smoking Nazis

There's a friggin war going on and they're worried about the guy smoking. Bah!

[UpsideDownFlag]

2. jesus tapdancing christ.

of all the things to complain about...i notice no one's bitching that his make-up is all smeared.:smoke:

[SoCalDem]

3. It's ok to kill, but don't you DARE smoke

:eyes:

[Zorra]

4. Big Tobacco republicans paid good money for that ad. So come on kids,

listen to good old Joe Camel, and light up one of our fine cancer sticks now.

[Bluebear]

5. "Show smoking looking so good"????

Yes, of all the things I miss about smoking it's getting caked with dirt, paint and blood before lighting up that I miss the most.

[Philostopher]

6. Oh, ferpetesake.

Photos of soldiers with a smoke hanging off their lower lips are a tradition of this kind of photography. Do they really think the greatest danger to either his life or the lives of their children are cigarettes?

Maybe they don't think. That wouldn't be a big surprise.

[NightTrain]

7. That photo "glorified cigarette smoking?"

About as much as a rape picture glorifies sex. :puke:

[SoCalDem]

8. One-track minds..Narrow gauge..

It amazes me how people still just don't get it.. Some of them act as though it's a MOVIE...Snap out of it people..It's real..