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  • American Smokeout founder Lynn Smith dies

    07/14/2005 6:24:21 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 20 replies · 631+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 7/14/05 | Gregg Aamot - AP
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Lynn R. Smith, a newspaper publisher and force behind the Great American Smokeout, died Thursday at a nursing home where he had been in long-term care since suffering a stroke six years ago, his son Donald Smith said. Lynn Smith was 84. He was the publisher of the Monticello Times when he founded Don't Smoke Days in Monticello and in Minnesota in 1974. That led to the Great American Smokeout, the widely observed November day that has raised awareness of the health hazards of smoking. "He found a mission in his columns and on the Times editorial...