The Shuster Project

Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues

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To Whom It May Concern,

I buy issues of your paper at local stores to keep up with local news.  Over the past year I have tried, unsuccessfully, to quit smoking.  I have tried to find local information on tobacco issues, to try to find others who have also tried to quit.

Recently while doing research on this, I came across a non-health related tobacco site.  In all my research I never found any other non-health related tobacco issues information.

While researching a local site, www.naugatuck-ct.com, I found in the “Post-a-Link” button in that site, the local Web site of Robert Shuster from Naugatuck.  On the first page that opens near the very top, I found his very large and detailed tobacco issues site (http://rxshuster.org), that I am still in the process of reviewing.  All references from this point on will refer to The Shuster Project Web site.

I was at first a little surprised and then angry that I have never read anything about these extensive issues in your newspaper, my local newspaper, about a project this extensive and this involved that is based in my own hometown.

The site is massively interactive.  Robert Shuster hosts 3 scheduled chats per week that I intend to look into.  There are also forms for public input, forms for the Media to use, forms for businesses to contact The Shuster Project.  There is a fax number, mailing address, a phone number, and an email address.  This is the only site I have ever found that can put me in touch with the principal of the web site in real time (i.e., live chat).

In reading the press releases located within The Shuster Project Web site, I’m figuring that maybe you are not on their media contact list.  If you are, I sure would like to know why I have never read anything in regard to these startling issues, (i.e., Tobacco Company Income Tax Fraud and the IRS), in your newspaper.  If you are not on their media contact list, then perhaps this is a site you would be interested in knowing more about.

Local state politicians have been contacted by The Shuster Project about legislation the Project has pending in the legislature. Congressmen and Senators have been contacted, it shows, too.

I am forwarding a copy of this email to Robert Shuster, in compliance with the Public Invitation for Grassroots Effort letter, located in the Correspondence section of The Shuster Project Web site.

Sincerely,

Denise A. Johnson

Naugatuck resident of 20 years

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