NYSA Indexed
[Re: Airline Smoking Ban]
Abstract
Thank you for contacting me in opposition to a ban on smokinQ in airplanes Although I apprecate having your views this I to further restrict smoking on airplanes and other public conveyances The link between cigarette smoking and several serious
Fields
- Box
- 5617. Miscellaneous Issue Material
- Airline Smoking Ban 88
- DOT Appropriations Bill
- NYSA numbers
- 0044 B1793 02C
- Type
- Letter
- Author
- Glen, John
- Recipient
- Filter, Donald F
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WASHINGT~N~ D,C,
September 1, 1987
Mr. D~nald F. Fiiter
136410tusso Drive
Perrysburg, Ohio ~3551
Dear Mr. Filter:
Thank you for contacting me in opposition to a ban on
smokinQ in airplanes. Although I apprec~ate.having your
views 6n this ~ssue, I supportefforts to further restrict
smoking on airplanes and other public conveyances.
The link between cigarette smoking and several serious
illnesses -- including such deadly diseases as lung cancer,
emphysema and heart disease -- is undisputed. The federal
government has played, and must continue to play, a major
role in aYerting the public to these hazards so that
Americans can make informed decisions regarding the use of
tobacco. Several federal efforts, including the banning of
television advertising of tobacco products and the inclusion
of health hazard warnings on packages of cigarettes and
smokeless tobacco, are proving successful in reducing smoking
and, thereby, the incidence of smoking-related sickness.
However, smoking continues to be a major health danger, and I
believe the federal government can and should do more to
reduce this threat. ~
I am very concerned about the danger that "passive
smoke" can pose to non-smokers. The latest scientific
evidence indicates that non-smokers are harmed by the smoke
from others. The Surgeon General's December 1986 report, Th___~e
Health Consequences of Involuntary. Smoking~ concluded that
involuntary smoking is a cause of disease in healthy
non-smokers.
Consequently, I have cosponsored legislation which would •
prohibit smoking in commercial airplanes, buses, or trains.
Senate bill, S. 51, the "Prohibition of Smoking in Public
Conveyances Act of 1987.", was introduced in the Senate on
January 6, 1987, and it is my hope that this ban on smoking
in public conveyances will be passed by the 100th Congress.
I regret that we disagree on this matter and appreciate
having the opportunity to explain the reasons for my support
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Thank y@u for taking the
Sincerely,
United States ,Senator
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