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Weekly UpdatesProtect the Children of Nevada;
There is a need a Non-Smoking Law for Underage Minors (Kids and Young Adults)
There are many people trying to get Kids to Smoke. They think it is funny, cool or they are trying to get them hooked to make a profit. We need to stop this and it appears the only way is to put a Nevada Law in place, so those people have to pay for their attempt to destroy our Kids Health.
Our Nevada Law Makers and the Governor failed the Kids of Nevada during the 2007 Legislative session. They killed one of the most important bills (SB14) in the system that would have created a law to make it illegal for kids to smoke. They have a law in place making it illegal for businesses to sell cigarettes to minors, but it's not illegal for Kids to smoke.
What's wrong with this story?
I heard it was too hard or costly to administrate the law. Maybe we should stop giving parking tickets and eliminate laws that are hard to enforce. What is our Kids health worth? Who would not want to protect Nevada's Kids? They should have worked through their differences.
We need to create a law to make it illegal for Minors to smoke until the legal age of 18 years old. Anyone providing Minors Tobacco products to smoke or chew should be held responsible for their actions in breaking the law. This will protect our young until they are of legal age, then they can make up their own minds as an adult.
Editor's note:
Lee requested this plea be placed in the RNFormation and asks nurses to join the fight to get legislative action.
Lee had cancer of his voice box and communicates with a digital transformer and a Digital Servox Artificial Larynx (Voice Box) and uses an HP iPAQ Pocket PC. "All I need is batteries and someone to listen." He currently does "classes" to 4-6 graders throughout Carson City and beyond on the dangers of second hand smoke. Lee has never smoked! He also has had his PSA on at least 1000 times on TV.
Lee Radtke, Carson City
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