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April 18, 1979 Dear Fellow Employee: The Westchester County Board of Health recently adopted an amendment to the County Sanitary Code which will restrict smoking in most indoor areas open to the public, including offices, stores, auditoriums, theatres, museums and the like. You may share our view that such regulation is not only un- necessary and oppressive but clearly adversely affects our business. You may also believe that matters of this kind should be treated by your legislators and not by a mere ad- ministrative agency such as the Board of Health. For these reasons, we ask you to consider urging the Westchester County Legislature to review the action of the Board of Health and~to invalidate the proposed restrictive amendments. We have enclosed a list of the members of the County Board of Legislators and an example of what may be an appropriate letter to a legislator requesting some action on this matter. You may wish to request, in writing (on your own stationery), appropriate action on the part of your County Legislator. Your response to our calling this matter to your attention is a completely voluntary matter which is entirely in your discretion; however, we do ask you to consider taking part in something which affects both your County government and~ your Company in an important way. Arthur J! Stevens AJS/wrh Enc l . Very tru~ you ~~---f}•~ l )~~ C