Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2009-02-10
Intro: Some state lawmakers are questioning a state-funded billboard campaign warning people about the dangers of secondhand smoke.
The billboards are green with bold lettering and carry well-known sayings about death, but in place of words like “death” and “dead,” the phrase “secondhand smoke” is substituted. For example, one sign says, “’Til secondhand smoke do we part.”
Reads another: “Ding-dong, the witch is secondhand smoked.”
The billboards went up amid debate over a possible statewide smoking ban. A bill that would ban smoking in public places across the state has been introduced in the Legislature. The bill has been heavily amended but made it to the state Senate after clearing the state House.
Rodger McDaniel, deputy director of the Wyoming Department of Health, said warning the public about the danger of secondhand smoke is a legitimate mission of his department. . . .
CarolT wrote on Feb 12, 2009 2:48 AM:
" The real issue is ANTI-SMOKER SCIENTIFIC FRAUD, not "freedom versus health." More than 50 studies show that human papillomaviruses cause over ten times more lung cancers than they pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to this virus, so the anti-smokers' studies, which are all based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires, have been cynically DESIGNED to falsely blame passive smoking for all those extra lung cancers that are really caused by HPV.
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