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11.16.2009 4:20 pm

Smokers have options other than quit or die

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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.…

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08.28.2009 6:42 pm

Illinois showed Missouri on smoking bans

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We may be the “Show Me” state but Illinois sure showed us how when it comes to passing no smoking legislation!!!  It is a pleasure to dine on the east side.  I thought we lived in a majority rules country. …

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08.20.2009 6:18 pm

Can we now agree that tobacco should be banned?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It has now been written, in a public format, the truth about tobacco.  In a letter published in the Post-Dispatch (which by the way, the “Patch” is a great way to wean one’s self off of Nicotine addiction, when done…

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08.06.2009 7:22 pm

Contradictions from smokers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The people who smoke offer up a contradictory example when they complain about the effort of non smokers to ban smoking in public places. Did you ever notice that when smokers are driving in their cars, they always have their…
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07.16.2009 4:56 pm

No smokers? No tobacco sales

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Now that the mayor basks in publicity for attacking a defenseless group (smokers), Clayton, in all fairness, should be banned from selling tobacco products. They should not be allowed to receive and money from the unfair taxes levied on tobacco…

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07.07.2009 5:55 pm

If other parts of the country can ban smoking, so can St. Louis

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I recently returned from a lovely trip around New England. The area is absolutely gorgeous, as I expected. What I didn’t expect is that all six states I visited restricted smoking nearly everywhere I went. Restaurants, bars, an outdoor shopping…

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06.09.2009 6:18 pm

Shouldn’t we be free to choose?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 “Smoking is Unhealthy” – Most people might think that this statement is actually true!  This does not change that fact that a significant number of our fellow citizens still choose to smoke and most bar and restaurant owners choose to allow…

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05.20.2009 5:56 pm

No one forces you to go where smoking is allowed

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I am not a smoker and never have been.  The smoking ban issues in various municipalities in the area have caused quite a controversy.  I feel the individual business owner should make the decision for his or her establishment. Most…
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05.13.2009 5:55 pm

Just get rid of the smokers and everything will be OK, right?

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I am so glad to know that once the smokers are irradicated from restaraunts,bars and casinos that St Louis will become the city of the world. We have no real probelms other than the smokers. It appers to me that…
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05.12.2009 6:20 pm

Smoking in public is morally irresponsible

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Like most issues confronting our country, you can’t solve the problem if you can’t actually articulate the problem. There is no “right” to smoke any more than there is a “right” to live without its affects. These are not rights…

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