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Believe it or not, I worked for a company in 1976 in Little Rock, AR, where the president had a non-smoking break room for those of us who already hated second hand tobacco smoke. Of course, the smokers raised a fuss about it being "nicer," but it remained, anyway. The president of the company had seen his father die of lung cancer due to cigarette smoking and was apparently way ahead of his time in recognizing what second hand smoke could do, and I still applaud him for it to this day! The company distributed books, magazines and LPs (albums) nationally, but it has since been bought by someone else and the name has changed a time or two since they, but some of us "old timers" still remember the founder(s).
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The city spends millions of dollars for alcoholics and drug addicts to send them away say for a month to help them get over their addiction but not a dime on smoking which I'm sure costs them millions in health care. Why not set up a place to send smokers where they can be cut down the first week they're there and then got them smoke free. Smoking is legal but it kills you slower than drugs and alcohol. Just a thought.
Thank you Brian and I could not agree with you more. If I could afford it, I would establish such a place in Chicago and model it after the in-patient Mayo facility. It works!
Carol