This money is coming from companies that push a deadly drug, not from the taxpayers of Wisconsin. Every penny that Philip Morris et.al. have to pay out is good news as far as I'm concerned. Put your money where your mouth is and stop accepting money from drug pushers.
Intelligent people know target marketing when they see it.
The tobacco industry needs replacement smokers to take the place of their dead customers. Young teens and adults, many of whom read your paper, are their future. It's good to see Joel McNally back, but I must say I'm getting sick and tired of all the letters in your paper that portray him as the savior of the Shepherd Express . I was reading the Shepherd Express years before McNally came, and as far as I can remember, the only thing he did besides write his own column was hire all his no-talent relatives to write their columns. I wish you luck as the Shepherd Express Metro .