[C-U Smokefree] A great way to start your day!

[Maryly Crutcher]

Wow -- that was really moving. I could write the same story about Dick and Ellen Wikoff, my long-time neighbors who were like parents to me. Seeing them die, poorly, of lung cancer, will haunt me all my life. And besides the terrible toll on them and their family, I will feel the loss of their association w/me and my family my whole life.
Maryly Crutcher
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Scott P Hays 
  To: cu-smokefree at cu-smokefree.org 
  Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 7:39 AM
  Subject: [C-U Smokefree] A great way to start your day!


  Here's one of the saddest - and best - testimonials for doing what we do.



  It was sent to all of the members of Champaign council.



  Thanks to one and all for everything that you do to make this possibility real.



  CU Smokefree!



  Scott



  The Prez



  -----Original Message-----
  From: Julie Cimarusti [mailto:Cimarusti at hotmail.com] 
  Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 4:11 AM
  To: Council at ci.champaign.il.us
  Cc: lewart at cu-smokefree.org; sphays at cu-smokefree.org
  Subject: Smokefree Champaign Ordinance



  I am a Mother of three young children having lived in Champaign-Urbana my whole life.  I am so pleased that this vote is a real possibility in being in favor of children's health and parents who want to see their children grow in a safer town.  My father passed away 6 years ago from lung cancer.  He was a well liked and respected bar owner in Urbana.  He smoked as well as breathed second hand smoke for 21 years.  Ironically, once he sold his business he quit smoking so that my Mother would not have to breathe in the smoke day in and out.  The Cancer was in existance way before he quit and he succumb to it to our great sadness.  Having needed to say something about my Dad, I feel passionate about this subject.  



  I get the perspective of the business owners, I understand depending on customers for a living.  I find that smoking in public is no different than driving while drinking.  Its reckless, it endangers the life of others.  Its no sure thing that you are giving everyone around you lung disease, just the same its no guarantee that you will get into your car and slam into me or my kids just for your selfish personal satisfaction.   In this day and age with healthcare cost being out of control, lets start with the obvious and take the self gratifying smoking that does effect the rest of us who have to smoke right along with you.  If Champaign-Urbana goes smoke free - thats a pretty bold statement that this progressive community cares - I would love to see smokers be in the minority, not because government dictates it but that people learn from the example the City Council can represent in the clear health advantages to cleaner air.  Thank you for caring about the citizens of this community.



  Julie Cimarusti  



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