Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 19, 2020

They’re kind of shy. It takes them a while to open up.

Hi and there’s still No smoking Allowed.

Is Trudeau literally naming and shaming real people here?

And every single one of them ought to still be in prison.

I wonder if the high muckety mucks of the tobacco companies smoked?

Ah, the good olde days! The days when our worst fear was just cancer and we had a good government that would drag the bad guys before the highest level of government to be grilled. Today, Trump would say that cancer barons are good people being treated poorly.

Can you see the Grim Reaper in with that group?

are they hiding their faces because they are ashamed or because they didn’t get a haircut yet?

The shame is on the federal government. Tobacco is the most deadly drug, but is unconstitutionally exempt by name from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). We need the Equal Protection of the Law guaranteed by Amendment XIV; either tobacco/nicotine is classified & regulated as the schedule I controlled substance it is by definition in the CSA, or the CSA must be repealed & the DEA abolished!

Talk about saving face!