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  • Radio Host Donates Smokes for Soldiers

    12/10/2004 3:23:49 PM PST · by LouAvul · 96 replies · 1,499+ views
    fox ^ | 12-10-04
    SKOKIE, ILL. — Radio host Mike North (search) took his show on the road for what he believed was a good cause: Collecting cigarettes for soldiers overseas. North urged his listeners in Skokie, Ill., to donate cigarettes to be sent to the troops. He called the campaign “Smokes for Soldiers” (search) and said he got the idea from the picture of James Miller (search), the 20-year-old Marine in combat in Iraq photographed with a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth. “His picture was plastered all over the newspapers and I started reading … and he says, ‘I’m just doing what’s...