whether or not avranas ' offense was legal or just a violation of tradition , he 's shown himself to be a person of poor character or , at the very least , an individual who 's ill-suited to assume the tacit obligations and responsibilities that come with a captain 's bars . ; -- mark g. carbonaro ; monterey ; anti-smoking zeal wastes health funds ; on july 30 , the mercury news ran a full-page anti-smoking ad sponsored by the california department of health services .