OK, it’s a start.
Of course, this is
the next logical step, and folks in Westminster, MA, are taking it.
The Board of Health
in this town of 7,400 in central Massachusetts is considering a ban on all
tobacco and tobacco products. Period.
The board isn’t
trying to ban smoking. It just wants to prevent everyone from legally buying anything
to smoke in Westminster.
In America, about
half a million people die prematurely every year because of smoking, and of
course smokers drive up health care costs for themselves and for all of us....and 12-year-olds can get cigarettes.
The Center for
Tobacco Research and Intervention (University of Wisconsin) says about 80% of
smokers claim they want to quit, and half of them try it every year.
Maybe the smokers in
Westminster are going to get a helping hand.
Here’s hoping.
Why is it still
legal to sell tobacco anywhere?
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2014
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