Editor:
The citizens of Green River and Rock Springs are enjoying the benefits of clean indoor air. The recently passed ordinances have provided our citizens with decreased exposure to second-hand smoke.
The benefits of this cleaner air include decreased absorption of the harmful chemicals found in second-hand smoke, a decreased number of nonsmokers dying of lung cancer and lower rates of respiratory and ear infections in our children.
Remember, there is no known safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke. I invite the whole of Wyoming to join us for the Great American Smoke Out, Nov. 20. All of Wyoming should benefit from clean indoor air!
TERESA WEYER, Green River
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amazonjude wrote on Nov 17, 2008 10:36 AM:
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Pete wrote on Nov 18, 2008 10:32 AM:
we need wrote on Nov 18, 2008 2:07 PM:
We need a statewide ban on store purchased canned food or other processed foods. If it is not organic you can’t get it. All those chemicals in those processed and cans of food are unhealthy. No Tran’s fats used or sold for use for business or private food preparation. I don't like it so you cannot have it. As a matter of fact only low calorie snacks are ok the rest of the junk food has to go.
I do not even want you near me smelling of the last greasy animal carcass you gnawed on.
We need a statewide ban on using cell phones or any other device while driving. I do not want to be saddled with higher taxes for long term medical and higher insurance because of your inability to walk and chew gum at the same time when it results in an accident.
As a matter of fact we need a statewide ban on anything that could remotely cause us any harm. This is especially true if your behavior at all interferes with my being out and about or if it starts using my taxes to care for you or otherwise impacts my life or annoys me.
On a side note you cannot get it completely removed from the state. You have no control over federal land or the reservations. Tobacco is also used by certain spiritual belief systems in ceremony’s and no law can be found to be constitutionally sound if it impacts the free exercise of a religion.
So keep pushing and someone will get tired and push back and you will be on the receiving end. "
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