Posted on 07/07/2004 7:23:00 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
CHARLESTON-- A picture of a Mail Pouch sign on a barn has been a fixture at the West Virginia State Museum since it opened in 1976 but anti-smoking advocates say something is missing from the exhibit -- a sign warning of smokeless tobacco's health risks.
Officials with two anti-smoking groups want the Division of Culture and History to post the warning when the museum, which is closed for renovation, reopens later this year.
But that is not likely to happen.
''It's being treated as a cultural icon as far as we're concerned,'' said Nancy Herholdt, former commissioner of Culture and History who has overseen the museum's renovation. ''Not a social issue. It's such a visual throughout Appalachia. We felt it was important to leave it in for that reason, as a piece of folk art.''
More paranoid insanity from those with too much free time.
If the warning was posted for this "art", then we should post bihazard warnings on elephant dung sculptures of Mary and urine cross "art"......
...I was gonna say....
Don't ya'll know that just by looking at tobacco, smokeless or cigarette form, will cause you to keel over dead of arthritis! Tobacco, the cause of all of man's illnesses!
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