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LETTER: Asthma a factor in smoking ban  

Before someone else complains about the no-smoking proposal, why don't we hear from someone who has experience with asthma? Did any of the writers of the previous letters to the editor ever experience an asthma attack triggered by smoke? Did they realize that Cache Valley already has bad air, and so to add cigarette smoke to the already unhealthy air is a recipe for disaster for asthmatics? Did they "research" how many carcinogens and toxins are in secondhand smoke?

Let's look at a study done at UCSF (a school not known for morals). In 2005, medical researchers there reported "directly measured secondhand smoke exposure appears to be associated with poorer asthma outcomes [than previously thought]. In public health terms, these results support efforts to prohibit smoking in public places." Do you think that those medical researchers included a 'moral factor' in their study when they recommended to ban smoking? . . .

Before anyone complains more about the morals behind banning smoking, try looking at it from the point of view of those with asthma and 'bad genes.'

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