Re: "Woman fuming over smoking neighbor -- Before lawsuit, complex says, it replaced air filters, offered to relocate tenants," Wednesday news story. Instead of having pity for these two obviously disturbed individuals, The Dallas Morning News gives them credibility by...
Re: "Woman fuming over smoking neighbor -- Before lawsuit, complex says, it replaced air filters, offered to relocate tenants," Wednesday news story. Am I the only person who thinks that the two women wearing gas masks because of a smoking...
Re: "Flavored smokes banned by FDA," Wednesday news story. I have news for the Food and Drug Administration. Seventeen-year-old kids are not supposed to be smoking in the first place. This is just another useless feel-good ban. Billy Shafer, Centerville...
Re: "Tobacco kills, too," by Bill Stoner, Friday Letters. The use of tobacco, sugar and fast food is a choice. Taxes do not stop their use; they only give more money to the government. Yes, big business will craft profits...
Last month, I witnessed President Barack Obama sign long-overdue legislation granting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products. Sen. John Cornyn tirelessly fought to pass this legislation for years, and during the Senate debate, he...
Let the record show -- I'm not a smoker nor is anyone in my family. So when I see a bill to raise the smoking age to 19, I have mixed thoughts. I find it hard to believe that 20...
Now that we've got a smoking ban in place... Amazing how normal smoking once was......
Re: "Philip Morris must pay $8M to smoker's widow," Thursday news story. Philip Morris has been ordered by a jury to give $8 million to this woman because her husband died of lung cancer after smoking two packs of cigarettes...
Re: "Smoking for a good cause," by Tom Fox, Tuesday Letters. Fox declares he is smoking for the children. He is likely to be sending money to help those children that he and other smokers have hurt with secondhand smoke....
My chest swelled with pride, and my heart soared like an eagle as I watched President Barack Obama sign a bill expanding the State Children Health Insurance Program. The taxation of my deadly and disgusting habit of smoking cigarettes will...
Re: "Vote set to boost ban on smoking -- Officials will decide next week whether to include pool halls, bars," Thursday news story. I'm so relieved the Dallas City Council is keeping us safe from second-hand smoke. What about people...
Re: "Cut Through the Haze -- Council should ban smoking in bars, not outside," Monday Editorials. Your recent editorial indicated that the city would be going too far if it attempted to ban smoking on restaurant patios. Why? Now that...
I am an employee of a bar that I choose to work for. If smoking is truly a public health issue, then why doesn't the state act since 46 state attorneys general accepted the tobacco master settlement? Moreover, why doesn't...
I do realize that smoking irritates some people. Since I disagree with banning smoking in restaurants, I seldom go out to eat in Dallas since the ban was enacted. Many people have allergies to peanuts, yet there are steakhouses in...
Driving to work today, I couldn't help but notice how many of my more distant neighbors have started ignoring the bulky-trash pickup date and are simply dumping mountains of household junk out on the curb whenever they feel like it....
We had an interesting discussion this week about smoking. It is the centerpiece discussion on today's Letters page in Points. The editorial board is divided on whether the city should pass an ordinance banning all smoking in bars and other...
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