PROHIBITION DIDN'T WORK

I'm writing about David S. Danback's Nov. 24 letter, "Why allow
tobacco sales?" The simple answer is because prohibition doesn't
work. It never has and never will except to provide for the full
employment of those doing the prohibiting.

We don't have tobacco-related crime of any major significance. This
would soon change if we removed tobacco from the legitimate market
and criminalized it. If tobacco were criminalized, it would be
unregulated, untaxed and controlled by criminal gangs just like
recreational drugs are today.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.