Dear Editor,

A few cold Denver early mornings ago, I was blown away by the rugged man shopping in front of me with his worn and tattered jacket’s back message “No Smoke.” I quickly complimented the message to the 60-year-old Hispanic man and shook his big calloused hand. He allowed me to take pictures, while I was telling him that smoking killed my father in 1964 when I was 11.

Now, it is heartbreaking that the newly nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as our secretary of Health and Human Services avoids Big Tobacco like the plague while speeding after Big Food and Big Pharma.

The tar and nicotine blood of the 480k Americans legally slain by BT annually should be used to write that caring and courageous “No Smoke” onto all RJK Jr’s attire.

The hit song “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” by the late great songwriter Jim Steinman for Meatloaf for Kennedy’s theme.  

 Mike Sawyer

A child health advocate and activist since 1983

7787 Elmwood Pl

Denver, CO 80221

205-515-1560 (texting available)

msawyer911@gmail.com

@FitToGive