What A Day! (HB 82 update)

4 project:1200 activists

6 hours

35 legislators contacted face-to-face

I'll tell you what: all that work is exhausting! But it will pay off. Oh yes, it will pay off. Before we know it, Big Tobacco will be suffering worse than the millions that they are killing! Let's keep on keepin' on!

Please continue to write legislators about the tobacco tax! For guidance, check out the last half of yesterday's post "Big Tobacco Kills People... and Bills."

Also, with all this excitement following the tobacco tax, I forgot about HB 82 (smoking in cars with children)! This is going to be discussed in the Health and Human Service (HHS) committee meeting on monday, so write the members of this committee to urge them to support this bill! Here are their email addresses:

(copy and paste into the BCC line)

dcbuttars@utahsenate.org, sadams@utahsenate.org, achristensen@utahsenate.org, dhinkins@utahsenate.org, pjones@utahsenate.org, lrobles@utahsenate.org

Here are some talking points for this bill:

- there is NO SAFE LEVEL of tobacco smoke exposure

- the level of toxic air in a vehicle when smoking is 10 TIMES greater than what the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers hazardous.

-in 1997, the National Cancer Institute concluded that secondhand smoke is the cause of:

- 2,000 cases of SIDS a year

- 8,000 new cases of asthma in children

- 1 MIL cases of exacerbated asthma in children

put "vote YES on HB 82 (smoking in cars with children)" in the subject line.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT! Together, we will make Utah a more safe and healthy place to live in!

p.s. : less than two weeks left in the session! ah!