Tobacco products should not be manufactured in the first place
Sep 14, 2007, 10:02
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Regarding Marc Hansen's column on the fight over a smoking ban at the 3663 Grand Ave. condominiums in Des Moines ("Truce Reached in Smoking Fight at Condo Complex," Aug. 30): It included the statement, "Before you start bossing people around, telling them what they can or can't do in the privacy of their own homes, you'd better have a life-and-death situation." Smoking anywhere is a "life-or-death" situation. More than 1,200 people die per day in the United States from illnesses related to smoking, either direct or secondhand. That's nearly 500,000 people per year. Manufactured tobacco products contain more than 600 unnecessary additives, and one puff of exhaled cigarette smoke spews nearly 5,000 harmful chemicals into the air, some of which do not dissipate for great lengths of time. Cigarettes contain asbestos, arsenic and other lethal drugs. I'd say that the board members were doing the conscionable thing: They were protecting the people and the property they were elected to govern from certain illness and deterioration. I'm sorry they backed down. I'm sorry for the smokers who will have a difficult time quitting and who will most certainly have difficulties from smoking at some point in their lives. I'm sorry for the nonsmokers whose right it is to breathe clean air in their own homes, which in this case are connected to smokers' homes. But I'm sorrier for our state leaders who do not regulate the manufacture of products that have been proven to kill. We should be banning the manufacture of tobacco products, not banning smoking.
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