Creating crimes
Gadsden Times - In addition, think of the savings in health cost and the savings of thousands of lives that would be lost because of their dirty second hand smoke. After all it’s just a lowlife scumbag smoker we are extinguishing. I mean who are they to think they
Can Obama bridge the partisan divide?
San Francisco Gate - During the years in which I suffered from asthma, wood smoke was the irritant I dreaded most - by far. It’s high time we banned this toxic second-hand smoke, at least in urban and suburban areas and not just on official spare-the-air days. Wood smoke
Senator smoke-free
The Washington Times - He remembers a doctor’s visit from his youth in which the doctor credited him with quitting smoking, but the senator had never smoked. The doctor was mistaken his lungs were clearing up from years of second-hand smoke from his mother and father.
Government accountant not paying attention?
Nashville Tennessean - Smoking and second-hand smoke takes years to affect people but one alcoholic drink could possibly hurt and kill someone instantly. For example, you can drink all you want at a Titans game and hurt someone there or on the way home, but you can’t smoke
Indoor smoking ban hitting people on the sidewalks as well
MLive.com - When the new Ottawa County Smoke-Free Indoor Air Regulations went into effect on Jan. 1, the aim of the regulation, according to Health Department officials, was to cut down on the amount of second-hand smoke non-smokers encountered. The new
New York City Death Rate Reaches Historic Low
Science Daily - Smoking-related deaths are calculated by methods published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; these estimates do not include deaths from exposure to second-hand smoke. While overall cancer deaths declined among people under 65
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Manhattan Mercury - Yes, you can sit indoors with walls and everything and smoke cigars until the room is blue with second-hand smoke. I asked if I might have a cigarette while I visited. The answer was a firm but polite no “we could lose our license” said the