Project:1200: CALL TO ACTION! (HB 82)

09 February, 2010

CALL TO ACTION! (HB 82)

Brothers and Sisters!

Representative Seegmiller and the children in Utah need your help!

There is a bill that, if passed into law, would allow children to ride in a car free from cigarette smoke. HB 82 would impose a fine on a person who smokes while a child is in the car. Just so you know, HUNDREDS of children die every year because of secondhand smoke. THOUSANDS of others develop asthma, chronic infections, and other complications. This bill would help lower those numbers drastically.

In order for this to happen, we need to email members of a specific committee to urge them to support this bill and send it with a favorable mention to the House floor to be voted on. The emails of the legislators that need your email are found below:

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee:

Rep. Douglas C. Aagard, Chair : daagard@utah.gov
Rep. Curtis Oda, Vice Chair : coda@utah.gov
Rep. Trisha S. Beck : tbeck@utah.gov
Rep. Ben C. Ferry : bcferry@utah.gov
Rep. Richard A. Greenwood : rgreenwood@utah.gov
Rep. David Litvack : dlitvack@utah.gov
Rep. Rebecca D. Lockhart : blockhart@utah.gov
Rep. Paul Ray : pray@utah.gov
Rep. Jennifer M. Seelig : jseelig@utah.gov
Rep. Larry B. Wiley : lwiley@utah.gov
Rep. Carl Wimmer : cwimmer@utah.gov

for more information on this bill, check out the facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=316609276214&ref=ts

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one drop of pure nicotine injected directly into the blood stream will kill you in 7 seconds.
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there are over 43 carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals) in cigarette smoke
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every 6.5 seconds someone in the world dies from a smoking-related disease.
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about 90% of all lung cancer deaths among U.S. women smokers are caused by smoking.
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