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DC>From: dave@compata.UUCP (Dave Close)

DC>I heard two new state government sponsored anti-smoking radio
DC>commercials today and they burn me up! (BTW, I am not and have
DC>never been a smoker.) In one, a pseudo-child's voice complains
DC>that tobacco companies are trying to deny him the right to breath.
DC>In the other, an adult complains that tobacco companies actually
DC>think they have the right to deny conventional politically-correct
DC>science.

My baby had lung damage from using a respirator following her premature
birth. The hospital sent her home with on O2 tank and these instructions
"just let her grow new lung tissue (babies can) and keep her away from
cigarette smoke."  Well, wouldn't you know, the first test of other
people's consideration came in the hospital outpatient clinic restroom.
When I pointed out the no smoking sign and that my baby was hooked up to
an O2 tank, the smoker said " Well if your kid can't be around smoke why
don't you keep her the **** home."   As if we were at the hospital for
recreational purposes.

Have you ever noticed how when people are smoking they trail their
cigarettes behind them so as not to get smoke in the faces of the
people they're with?  And they never notice that the smoke is right at
the level of the baby stroller following.  I've actually had my
children burned this way. This kind of thing goes on all the time at
the Zoo, at Disneyland, at Seaworld.  Hey, we're outdoors, whatsa
problem?

I don't mind spending a little money raising the consciousness of the
conscience-less.  Keeping kids healthy saves us all money in the long
run.

Janice

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