Cosmopolitan magazine
P.O. Box 10907
Des Moines, IA 50347-0907

December 28, 1998

To Whom It May Concern:

We were just made aware by the Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research of the tremendous amount of cigarette and tobacco advertising contained in your magazine. While we have seen this garbage and fully disapproved of the inclusion of such irresponsible material in this information source, we, as adults, have just ignored it.

Cosmopolitan is an important information source to both teens and adults in this country. We are saddened that your editor-in-chief, Kate White, does not fully appreciate the role that your magazine plays in the development of a more sophisticated and healthy society.

We are, therefore, canceling our subscription to your magazine and urging other readers to do the same. By allowing the tobacco industry to advertise in your magazine you have become a contributing partner to the death and social destruction that is carried by tobacco-addiction.

Cosmopolitan is a successful and popular magazine. You obviously could select from many other advertisers. You are, therefore, nothing but a prostitute company since you are apparently more concerned about making money than focusing on the health and welfare of our nation's children.

We are not fanatical social do-gooders or zealots, we are just regular citizens who are working to create a better world for many people -- particularly this nation's children. We are genuinely saddened that your magazine demonstrates insufficient social backbone to resist the pressures of big tobacco money.

If we have any money remaining in our account with you, you may keep it.

Sincerely