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The smokers always gave us three choices: breathe in the smoke, not breathe, or leave. It is the Little Miss Muffet syndrome. The spider in this case is a smoker who puffs away, and the nonsmokers are the ones who must pack up and move away from the smoke. Well, things have changed because the Marietta City Council has acted to protect concert goers. Thanks council.<br> <br> For Tom, here are a few names of victims killed by the chemical warfare that is called smoking. Heather Crowe worked 40 years in smoky cafés and died of lung cancer 3 years ago. Is the park they named after her smokefree? <br> http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/bulldog/archive/2009/05/22/heather-crowe-park-dedicated.aspx<br> Monica C worked in a smoky room in a bank in Milan, Italy, begged for a less smoky place to work, died from an asthma attack, and two supervisors went to prison for manslaughter.<br> http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/03/28/story753510993.asp<br> Dr. Abid Hanson was flying home from Greece on Olympic Airways, requested to be moved to a less smoky area, his wife begged, the flight crew did nothing, and he died of an asthma attack. The judge awarded the family $1.4 MILLION, and it was upheld by the US Supreme Court. <br> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/25/BAGN457OSD1.DTL&type=health<br> A model with asthma in NYC sued her bosses over exposure to tobacco smoke and won $5 MILLION. I don’t have her name, but she didn’t die.<br> <br> Vehicles and coal-fired power plants near Marietta pollute the air. Cigaret-caused fires pollute the air when they burn down a building or forest. But why make the outdoor air worse with tobacco smoke in a park? Especially, when people are close together, and have set out their blanket, food and such.<br> <br> Bob’s comments and URL’s for articles have appeared in other newspapers. But he doesn’t realize nonsmokers were asking for protection from tobacco smoke 20 years before RWJ Foundation got involved. Maybe the J stands for Johnny Come Lately.<br> <br> I hope other local governments will ban smoking at sports fields, picnic areas, and other outdoor gatherings. We need to also thank those who complained. They did us a favor.
By Gordon

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