Thirty-four years with the Cancer Society working to keep our communities free from the triggers that decimate our bodies and minds with cancer — years of advocating and standing firm, until at last our voices were heard. Hope came in the words “smoke free” and we could see a future with less toxic smoke releasing in lungs and bodies, shortening precious lives.
We never imagined in the years we were sending our message out that anyone would think of anything that would stop the momentum of eventually reducing drastically the cause of many cancers and deaths that need not have caused so much grief and sadness in families.
It’s not lip service to ideals but faith in our ability to finish the race and reach our goal.
Perhaps the leaders in our society will let us reach our goal and let those who have worked so long and hard to reduce smoking rates see their sometimes life’s work a reality.
Surely the one thing that causes so much death and destruction of hope, with so many illnesses, is not something to play politics with.
I’m sure there are other ideas to lift the economy without destroying lives and the dedicated work of so many people.
Nona Aston
