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Updated: 11:04 PM Jun 25, 2009
ACS, Coalition Renew Call for Smoking Ordinance
Meridian, Miss. Efforts to get a smoking ordinance passed in Meridian are being renewed with the coming of a new administration. Posted: 2:21 PM Jun 25, 2009Reporter: Andrea Williams Email Address: andrea.williams@wtok.com |
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My father smoked in the house, and in the car with me when I was a child. He died of heart disease in his 60s. I have severe allergies, asthma, and chronic bronchitis. I cannot enter some of the restaurants in town because you have to walk through the smoking area to get to the non-smoking area. Just a little exposure to tobacco smoke leads to an asthma attack. Please consider the ban on smoking in restaurants. Lung cancer is not the only serious problem caused by passive smoke.
Although she never smoked, Gossett is a lung cancer survivor who says she developed it as a result of second-hand smoke. THIS IS A LIE,INVENTED BY SMOKE FREE TO INDUCE PEOPLE INTO FEAR.....HERES THE FACTS. FOX NEWS ARTICLE March 8, 1998 Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer - official By Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent THE world's leading health organization has withheld from publication a study which shows that not only might there be no link between passive smoking and lung cancer but that it could even have a protective effect. The astounding results are set to throw wide open the debate on passive smoking health risks. The World Health Organization, which commissioned the 12-centre, seven-country European study has failed to make the findings public, and has instead produced only a summary of the results in an internal report. Despite repeated approaches, nobody at the WHO headquarters in Geneva would comment on the findings last week. At its International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon , France , which coordinated the study, a spokesman would say only that the full report had been submitted to a science journal and no publication date had been set. The findings are certain to be an embarrassment to the WHO, which has spent years and vast sums on anti-smoking and anti-tobacco campaigns. The study is one of the largest ever to look at the link between passive smoking - or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) - and lung cancer, and had been eagerly awaited by medical experts and campaigning groups. Yet the scientists have found that there was no statistical evidence that passive smoking caused lung cancer. The research compared 650 lung cancer patients with 1,542 healthy people. It looked at people who were married to smokers, worked with smokers, both worked and were married to smokers, and those who grew up with smokers.