[C-U Smokefree] Re: CU-Smokefree Digest, Vol 3, Issue 9

[Theotskl at aol.com]

Thank you So much Kathy Drea for sharing the Christian Science article--I 
appreciated it.  While the article suggests that the momentum for smoke free work 
and public places is picking up and will be moving things forward, let us not 
forget that the only major stakeholder in this fight who does not have a 
vested interest in the protection of workers and consumers' health is the tobacco 
industry.

"Doubt is our product," proclaimed a 1969 Brown and Williamson formerly 
secret document (and that means finding was through consultants, through lawyers, 
through third parties) to trivialize issues, to confuse issues, and to creat 
splinters where that trivialization and confusion become embeded in the public's 
sense of "common sense."  The press has done a nice job in advancing directly 
or indirectly , knowingly or unknowngly the industry's product of doubt.  So 
it is not so difficult then to understand why we  (as health advocates, as 
responsible members of the citizenry, and as victims of the  direct and 
secondhand smoke exposure's ill health effects)we have to fight on so may fronts to 
advance the simple goals of good health, safe places for our workers, and above 
all , justice and human dignity!

And so all work that is done towards the actualization of these elementary 
but honorable goals, is worthy of the time, energy, and will we can devote to 
it.

So, keep up the great work, Champaign Urbana Smoke Free Alliance, and keep on 
sharing Kathy Drea--and thanks again!

Theo

 
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