SAN FRANCISCO... smoking ban revisited.... with updates... can it get any tougher? with other cities follow suit?

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I certainly hope so. If people want to be stupid and slowly kill themselves, do it somewhere where no one else can be affected. It'll be great when insurance companies stop insuring smokers and alcoholics - the rates should go down for the rest of us.

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Common Areas of Apartment Buildings Are a Horrible Place to Smoke, It Exposes Innocent Children to Secondhand Smoke Meet Lisa McCairin, my neighbor's child (not her real name). At barely one year of age, Lisa has been a daily Secondhand Smoker since birth. That is because the adult tenants in Lisa's building smoke in the common areas.In the hallway.

On the stairs. On the enclosed, ceilinged porch just 2 feet from her door and her window. All day long.

The porch is a particular problem because when the adults open her door, there is a vacuum effect that draws all that smoke with a great Whoosh right into her bedroom. The adults are clueless."I have an absolute right to smoke here! " The landlord is disinterested.

"There's no law against it!" Lisa doesn't talk much yet, but if she could, she would say: Please don't smoke up my air with this poison, my lungs aren't finished growing yet. I don't want to spend my first years of life breathing poisoned air.

Please support the Smoking Ban in San Francisco.It would prohibit smoking in common areas of residential buildings. Support the Smoking Ban for babies like Lisa who can't wait until they're old enough to say, "I deserve to breathe Clean Healthy Air". The Smoking Ban will be voted on at the Board of Supervisors at the City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee on Thursday, August 7th, 2008.

If you live in San Francisco, I urge you to Please call your Supervisor and say, "I strongly urge you to vote for the Smoking Ban, to protect babies like Lisa McCairin in apartment buildings from breathing dangerous Secondhand Smoke. " And even if the ban doesn't pass, or you don't live in San Francisco, if you know a child like Lisa, please call your area's Department of Public Health. You can make an anonymous report.

They may be able to send a Health Inspector to survey the situation and stop the child from further exposure and harm. Thank you for your time and attention.

I would support going further... Because of my work with minority youth, I have been asked to participate as a community representative in various public health initiatives, including tobacco. Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death. Because it kills slowly, over a number of years, it adds many billions to our health care costs.

And nicotine is incredibly addictive, possibly the most addictive substance known to humanity. A recent Scientific American article found that people can become addicted after a single cigarette. sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hooked-from-the... Even if there were no negative health effects from cigarettes, I think such an addictive product is inherently demeaning to humanity.

Addicted people essentially become slaves to tobacco. They are so deceived and full of denial that they will insist (just like alcoholics) that they aren't addicted, when they really are. And in my view, that is a pathetic and pitiable position to be in.

But they should not feel bad. The tobacco companies should feel bad. They should feel ashamed.

Third, for some reason, tobacco products aren't regulated at all, unlike every other product you take into your body. They get some kind of free pass from the FDA. So you have no idea how much nicotine, pesticides, foreign substances, other carcinogens, lead, plutonium, rat poison, whatever, you are taking in when you smoke.

I think in an ideal world, the production of tobacco would be tightly regulated (perhaps limited to ceremonial use by Native Americans), and its sale might be banned outright. Barring that, it should be regulated by the FDA, just like diet soda and potato chips. That would save hundreds of thousands of lives each year just in the US, and it would save millions of people from the indignity of being addicted to a corporate product, and putting billions of dollars in the pockets of people who, like all drug dealers, despise them.It would save billions in health care costs, and add years to our life expectancy.

I think the tobacco industry is evil. Literally..

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.