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Senator Brent Hill's son dies of lung cancer
Illness prompts legislation to outlaw smoking in most public places

Parts excerpted from the Spokesman Review, 2004-02-24

Business in the Idaho state Senate came to a halt Monday, when word came that
Sen. Brent Hill's son, Ritchie, died at 10:45 a.m.
Ritchie Hill, who had just turned 28 last month, was a nonsmoker who suc***bed
to lung cancer. His illness helped prompt his father to propose this year's
controversial smokefree workplace legislation that eliminates smoking in most
Idaho workplaces and public places, including restaurants.

The clean indoor air bill, SB 1283, passed the Senate by a 22-13 vote on Feb.
13. It is now pending in the House Health and Welfare Committee, where a
hearing is likely to be scheduled in the next week or two.

Senator Hill hasn't mentioned his son's illness as he pushed for his legislation
this year, but his daughter-in-law, Stacey Hill, testified in favor of the bill
before the Senate State Affairs Committee. She said that Ritchie was a healthy,
active man who "never smoked a cigarette."

Four days after his 27th birthday, doctors discovered Ritchie's lung cancer.
Even as he sought treatment at the hospital, Stacey recalled having to walk with
him through a choking haze of smoke outside the hospital doors, where smokers
gathered. SB 1283 would ban smoking within 20 feet of entrances to hospitals,
airports, shopping malls and other public places.

News of the death stunned senators on Monday, and they quickly called an early
halt to the day's business. The Senate chaplain offered a prayer before they
adjourned. Senate President Pro-tem Robert Geddes said, "We've been following
Ritchie's progress since early last summer... The type of cancer that he had was
especially rare and uncommon in a young man of his age who had never smoked."

Ritchie Hill left behind three small children in addition to his wife.


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"Naturally, the common people don't want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."

- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall

becky

as far as alt.support-stop smoking goes you are preachig to the choir.we
dont smoke
becky
Four days, 13 hours, 11 minutes and 41 seconds. 227 cigarettes not smoked,
saving $34.92. Life saved: 18 hours, 55 minutes.

magnulus

There is no proof this young man's tragic death is due to second-hand
smoke. None. Believe it or not, nonsmokers get lung cancer, too.

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Correct ... but you lowlife fitlthy smoker-addicts *are* going to pay ...
yeeeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

becky

would you please trim the stop smoking newsgroups from your headers ? thanks
in advance. becky

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"Naturally, the common people don't want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."

- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall

robbb

Do you also use the Bev Thornton alias?..

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No, only the Vox Populi pseudonym ...


--

"Naturally, the common people don't want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."

- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall

kyoteee

Which proves that lung cancer doesn't just happen to smokers.
Genetics is a primary cause of people developing cancer.

"Choking haze of smoke OUTSIDE"? Yeah...sure...credibility for this
story = below zero.

kyoteee

Because of bad family genetics.