The letter from Matthew Kuhlenbeck of the Missouri Foundation for Health (Nov. 7) offers help to smokers who want to quit.
Unfortunately, he failed to mention the most helpful option for most of those smokers: switching to a low-risk nicotine product.…
Ironic isn’t? There’s now a smoking ban in place in St. Louis City, but it seems there’s a crack and heroin dealer on every corner! Talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees!
Kim A. Knutsen
Webster Groves
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Now that the St. Louis County voters in their infinite wisdom have approved the smoking ban by a 2:1 margin, what can possibly come next? Since drunk drivers kill innocent people, perhaps we can focus on a ban against drinking…
A recent letter writer (Oct. 28), regarding Prop N, claimed that second hand smoke “causes approximately 50,000 deaths annually in the United States”, this attributed to a 2006 Surgeon General report.
Oh, really? So how many of these 50 thousand deaths…
I bowled nearly every day for two years as a varsity bowler in high school, but today I rarely step foot in a bowling alley. Despite my passion for the sport, I have no desire to expose myself to the…
Not being a smoker, I can only relate my common experiences with those who do, and the vast majority involve visitors to our fair city. I always encounter these “out-of-towners” while at various bar/restaurants in the west county area, and even…
As a former smoker, I have watched the debate surrounding Proposition N on next Tuesday’s ballot with great interest.
This ballot measure takes an important first step in promoting smoke free indoor air in enclosed public places across St. Louis County.…
Please get out and vote on Tuesday Nov 3 for Propposition N. Our children, patrons and restaurant workers deserve clean air to breathe. I have a very hard time when smokers complain about their rights. They have the right to smoke…
Fellow Citizens,
So lets get this straight; Proposition N proposes to ban smoking in all public places except casinos! Currently the owners of bars and restauarants in St. Louis County make their own smoking policies. These business owners are excericising their…
A recent letter said it was time to decriminalize marijuana. Why not? Consider the unborn babies of addicted mothers. Marijuana is 5 to 6 times harder on the lungs than cigarette smoking. The latter can cause low birth weight, which in turn…
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