The Smoke-Free Movement
Post Dispatch Adds Another Smoke-Free Editorial
Even St. Louis is now endorsing a Smoke-Free Illinois:
About 80 percent of Illinois adults don't smoke. They shouldn't have to breathe anyone else's poisonous tobacco fumes either.
Tobacco is a hugely profitable industry with a long record of blowing smoke to cloud the facts about the health hazards of smoking. It still fans the fears of restaurant and bar owners that clean-air bills will cost them business when, in fact, most have more business after anti-smoking protections are put in place.
This is an excellent editorial and does a good job of supporting its arguement with scientific fact. Click here to read the rest of the article.
About 80 percent of Illinois adults don't smoke. They shouldn't have to breathe anyone else's poisonous tobacco fumes either.
Tobacco is a hugely profitable industry with a long record of blowing smoke to cloud the facts about the health hazards of smoking. It still fans the fears of restaurant and bar owners that clean-air bills will cost them business when, in fact, most have more business after anti-smoking protections are put in place.
This is an excellent editorial and does a good job of supporting its arguement with scientific fact. Click here to read the rest of the article.