Letters: Tobacco health risks

Published: Tuesday, Feb. 26 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

Every form of tobacco contains a health risk. If tobacco was being introduced to the public today it would not receive the FDA's approval.

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Brad Rodu ("Smokers are routinely misinformed," Feb. 15) needs to remember that tobacco contains a deadly poison. Every form of tobacco contains a health risk.

Brad Rodu ("Smokers are routinely misinformed," Feb. 15) needs to remember that tobacco contains a deadly poison. Every form of tobacco contains a health risk. If tobacco was being introduced to the public today it would not receive the FDA's approval. Tobacco offers no benefits, health or otherwise, and the tobacco habit is very expensive.

Since Rodu seems to be promoting smokeless tobacco, perhaps he needs to disclose from which tobacco product he is receiving income.

Newel Standley

Murray

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airnaut

Everett, 00

Utah's air quailty is worse than smoking, it contains deadly poisons, and everyone is being FORCING to beath it...where's your outrage?

Texting while driviing is worse than drinking and driving...again, where's your More..

9:30 a.m. Feb. 26, 2013
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airnaut

Everett, 00

“If the 40,000 women in Utah who are pregnant suddenly started smoking, that would constitute a genuine health emergency,” said Dr. Brian Moench, an anesthesiologist who leads Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, a group that has More..

10:48 a.m. Feb. 26, 2013
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airnaut

Everett, 00

Owl
Salt Lake City, UT

I don't disagree at all.

I lived in Seattle for 22 years.

Washington States already has:
No Smoking indoor laws,
no smoking in vehicles with children,
Twice the More..

12:19 p.m. Feb. 26, 2013
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