COMICS WITH
PROBLEMS issue #3
WHERE
THERE'S SMOKE ... THERE'S DANGER
16
pages, full color throughout, newsprint.
Free
comic, distributed to children at public schools and at health
clinics from 1965 through 1978. Athletes change on the back
cover in subsequent reprints.
PROBLEM
DEALT WITH: Cigarettes
YOUR
LETTERS
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You've
gotta love that 1960s mixed message.
-- Daniel,
Albany GA
The whole county fair
lecture was probably one of the most stultifyingly boring comic
episodes I’ve ever read. I’ve been to more than
my fair share of county fairs, and everyone knows you only go
to meet cute farm boys and check out the 50 different varieties
of domestic chickens; not to be lectured at by some tight, prim
broad who conducts experiments on innocent rabbits.
-- Ann, Washington
DC
I bet that exhibit
had to fucking REEK! Wtf, a barrel full of used cigarette butts?
I'd puke!
-- Melissa, Worcester
MA
Fuck
you, I like smoking. You asshole comic book.
-- Richard,
New York City NY
Well I've learned one
thing and that his kid sister Tina's a total bitch. What a brat!
I see her as a casting call reject of of "the Bad Seed",
just a school production with shitty sound and lighting. I also
love that the parents are portrayed as an already lost causes,
soulless zombies.
-- Mary, Arvada CO
OMG, Tina's CUTE!
I LOVE TINA! She needs her OWN comic book!
-- Amanda, Greenville
SC
If Tina ever told on
me like that I'd wait for her to go to sleep and sneak into
her room and punch her in the face.
Also, I love that those
kids are just smoking up on the playground. Damn, we lost our
balls. I'd never light up in daylight like that. Kids used to
be cool.
-- Thomas, Hampton
Roads VA
So .. uh, the mom and
the woman at the cigarette exhibit are the same person with
different combed hair and colored outfit, right? Why doesn't
Ricky notice this? Why is she treating her own son like a stranger?
Is this sort of a 'i don't recognize you in public' thing
they're both agreeing to do, like when you find your dad out
on a date with another woman, or drunk at the race track?
-- Bill, Sarasota FLA
I love that these stupid
things always have an "athletes say" section (referring
to the back cover) - because we all know in life the Jocks
are really the levelheaded roll models who make the best decisions.
Never a hostile, mocking, closeminded alpha-violent bully in
the whole lot of em, nope, not ever.
-- Earl, Orem UT
I would love to be
a gym coach. They're the only older men who seem to have a green
light to cart other kids younger boys and girls around town.
"Nothing suspicious here, I'm a coach! Get in the car,
boys and girls!"
-- Paul, SanFrancisco
CA
The statistics are
good enough for that era, I guess. And the bit about tar slowly
dripping into your chest felt a little like a horror film.
-- Mary, Port Arthur
TX
This all makes me
really want to smoke a cigarette.
-- Paul, SanFrancisco
CA
I love the travelling
display rabbit and mouse! Every travelling cigarette exhibit
needs a travelling display rabbit and mouse!
-- Melissa, Murfreesboro
TN
Seriously man, I'm
gonna go have a cigarette. Be right back.
-- Paul, SanFrancisco
CA
Hahaha, man quitting
was sure easy for the parents, huh! Can't wait until they start
arguing in an hour, though. Divorced in a week!
-- Bill, Harrisburg
PN
Whoo, (exhales) I feel
a lot better now!
-- Paul, SanFrancisco
CA
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