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LETTER: Where is tobacco legislation? 

Jump to full article: Caymanian Compass (ky), 2007-06-13
Author: Michael Mandish

Intro:

I fear the tobacco legislation is under a cloud of smoke.

What started out as a bold and courageous initiative seems to have been dangerously delayed. . . .

During the many weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatments my loved one painfully endured, I got to see and learn from the other patients as well as from the doctors. The word from them is not if but when you will get cancer.

More than 50 per cent of the patients there were being treated for tobacco related cancers. . . .

We are in the majority!

Let your elected officials know that we need this legislation and we need it in the strongest language possible.

Have them open the door and let out the smoke so that we can breathe and smell fresh air again.

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