Smoking foes start e-mail campaign
Anti-smoking forces are urging Greensboro City Council members to support a measure that would urge the state to let local goverments make their own decisions about smoking in government buildings.
The council has received six letters since Monday on the subject, all from people who want tighter restrictions of smoking (as a frequent reader of the council's e-mails, I can tell you that six in one week on the same subject is worth noting).
Many of the e-mails echo the comments of Mark Dozier, a graduate student in public health at UNCG:
"I believe that our locally elected officials should evaluate the dangers of second-hand smoke and decide about a needed public smoking ordinance.
"The N.C. General Assembly should not have the sole voice to dictate the law of public smoking to Guilford County residents."
To read more about the subject, check out Amy Dominello's story from Tuesday.