Posted on 07/11/2002 12:23:19 PM PDT by SheLion
This is in response to the outstanding article written by Bob Tremblay on June 13, 2002. I was very pleased to see his strong position in your newspaper covering the hazards of secondhand smoke.
I am chairman of the Framingham Board of Health and member of the South Middlesex American Cancer Society Board. Both boards are concerned with the major health hazards of secondhand smoke.
In addition to the excellent points Mr. Tremblay stated in his column, I would like to point out some other related issues.
According to the American Lung Association children who breath secondhand smoke are more likely to suffer pneumonia, bronchitis, and other lung disease. Children who breathe secondhand smoke have more ear infections and are more likely to develop asthma.
According to the New York Department of Health, just 30 minutes of exposure to secondhand smoke can greatly increase your risk of heart attack.
Secondhand smoke can increase your risk of getting lung cancer by 24 percent.
Tobacco smoke contains arsenic, carbon monoxide, ammonia, methanol, butane and more than 50 other poisons.
Babies born to mothers who were exposed to secondhand smoke when pregnant are more likely to die from sudden infant death (SIDS) than babies whose mothers where not exposed.
California bartenders, even those who smoke, were healthier after California bars went smoke free.
Let's have Framingham be as healthy as possible.
Here's a link where you can educate yourself:
I have to go pick up my 4 year old daughter who's mother smoked while she was pregnant and who's parents still smoke.
I'll respond to this in more depth after I return home from retreiving this abused child who has suffered all of one ear infection in all of her 4 years.
I wonder when the anti's are going to attempt to connect roseola (a form of measles) and chicken pox to exposure to SHS - the only 2 major illnesses she has had.
The only thing that makes anyone in my household ill are the lies of the anti-smokers.
Your tax dollars at work ...
You're right. Nothing says love like trapping children in the car or home, then blowing cigarette smoke in their faces....It's just so special. Especially since you have proof it doesn't harm them
Oh, there you are again and me without a barf bag...About your childhood, lewislynn, were you an abused child? Did your parents smoke? I'm collecting evidence for my contention that the anti-smokers of today had miserable childhoods or were just miserable children. So far, it's running about 95%.
Especially since you have proof it doesn't harm them
I do have proof, el jerko. Not a one of them was harmed. There ya go. There's yer proof. (Even though I never once, and never knew a smoker who did, blew "smoke in their faces" I sure as hell smoked "around them" the entire 18-22 years they lived under my roof.)
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