An Open Letter to “Mother Earth News”

Dear Mother Earth News,

I was shocked - and very *very* disappointed - to open this month’s issue and find a full page advertisement for cigarettes, of all things! I’m referring to the ad for “Natural American Spirit” cigarettes that appeared near the back of the August/September 2008 issue.

I have been a fan of Mother Earth News for more than 30 years - since the original publication of the magazine. I have turned more people on to M.E.N. than I can remember, and my husband and I have held M.E.N. up to our son as one of the few publications that is true to both the earth, and clean, honest, healthy living.

To now find you pushing *cigarettes* is so shocking to the conscience - so antithetical to all for which we believed you to stand - that it is all we can do to not cancel our subscription immediately.

However,instead we will wait for the next issue, in the dear hope that the offending - and so completely out of character - advertising will be gone.

If it isn’t, we will be, and you will have alienated and lost at least one very loyal subscribing family.

Kind regards,

Anne P. Mitchell