Tobacco-free initiative will pay dividends for future
I would like to commend Carole Bruce for her recent Counterpoint, “Tobacco-free schools pay dividends.” As a parent of a student involved in the tobacco-prevention movement in Greensboro, I’d like to echo her statement that teens are really making a difference at the grass-roots level. Because of the work of teens and adults in Guilford County, our school system went tobacco-free in 2001, leading the way for the rest who will implement a policy this fall.
Our students have also advocated for tobacco-free playgrounds, athletic fields, pools and a host of other youth-friendly sites in this county. Thanks to the Tobacco Reality Unfiltered Youth Advisory Board in Guilford County, our teens are able to make a difference in the community by making Guilford a cleaner, safer and healthier place for our young people.
The movement toward tobacco-free schools and tobacco-free college campuses is one important step in ensuring a healthful future for our most precious commodity, our future leaders.
Sharon Genwright
Greensboro
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The tobacco crop is looking good in Davidson County this year!
Posted on September 1, 2008 3:44 AM
I bet her kid starts smoking two packs a day the minute she moves out of the house--just to pay mom back.
Posted on September 1, 2008 4:15 AM
I heard the football attendance was down!
Of course the liberals, must tell everyone how to live, what to eat, and what to do.
Think I will go have a big mac for breakfast.
My opinion,if you smoke that's your affair, if you are fat, that's your business. Damn reckon the liberals will outlaw golf, football, auto racing, hunting*, you always wonder what is coming next from these people.
* many use guns for hunting, and the liberals think only crooks should have guns. Point Washington, DC. Of curse the supreme court, struck down the DC gun ban. So the liberals just found away around it.
Posted on September 1, 2008 6:37 AM
I wonder how many posts will be made on the importance of individuals making their own decisions and how the real problem is a group overreaching their boundaries and wanting control over the rights of others...
Posted on September 1, 2008 9:39 AM
Evidently you guys did not read all of Ms. Genwright's letter before you pounced.
"for our most precious commodity" trumps any and all imaginary personal choice/freedoms you may have thought you had.
Posted on September 1, 2008 10:12 AM
"My opinion,if you smoke that's your affair,"
Yeah, Dog, it is. But secondhand smoke is poison. Smokers shouldn't be able to smoke in public areas like schools and parks and anywhere else frequented by children. You wouldn't let people run around and spray toxic pesticides on strangers would you?
Posted on September 1, 2008 12:24 PM