Smokeless Tobacco Advocate Rails Against 'Frauds, Extremists, Liars'
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:40 AM EDT
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL After I pointed out the rather cozy relationship between former Congressman Steve Buyer and former campaign donor RJ Reynolds (NYSE:RAI) -- for whom Mr. Buyer advocated tirelessly while in office and is now employed by as a lobbyist -- an email arrived in strident rebuttal to my “misleading smear.” The sender was one Bill Godshall director of a group called Smokefree Pennsylvania. He took exception to my calling Steve Buyer’s 2009 comparison of smoking tobacco and smoking lettuce “specious ” writing: “If caffeine addicts obtained all or most of their caffeine by rolling up and smoking dried ...