"Second Hand Smoke" is a term that you never used to hear of! Never!
What you heard instead was of Cigarette Companies large legal defense. In fact so prominent that you yourself would never dare question the health safety of cigarettes?
It took a long time to whittle away at that. And it should not have taken that long.
But, perhaps people looked around and couldn't figure out why they were not as healthy as other people? And eventually attributed it to "Second Hand Smoke."
Perhaps someone blew smoke in the wrong persons face. Somebody did in mine once.
And what did it take to finally say, "A god damned enough of that!" "You are not going to smoke in this office or public building ever again." "You are not going to make other workers sick!" "You are not going to make other workers sick and pretend that you had nothing to do with it."
So indeed change came about. And we can be grateful that it did.
But it took people to stand up to beliefs that were widely accepted as the norm.
Perhaps the person to remember isn't the Corporate CEO who made a billion dollars. Perhaps my hero is the person who was a good man or woman, played by all the rules and ended up homeless and dying from exposure. And indeed when Jesus Christ said the last will be first, I like that idea. I understand it. After all I didn't go to Catholic school to come out of there believing in satan.
© 2023 Thomas Paul Murphy
And you didn't have to be a real genius to know that second hand smoke was bad for you, at that time.
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