
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 31, 1990                   TAG: 9004020190
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A11   EDITION: METRO 
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COURTESY ROUTE ON SMOKING IS DEAD END

I HAD TO laugh at Joseph DeWilde's letter March 19, "Dislike my smoking?" He says he doesn't need crybabies. I never saw so much crying in one letter. But first, many thanks to Sen. Michie, Del. Cohen and Anne Morrow Donley, etc., for all their good work on the state Indoor Clean Air Act.

I suppose, indirectly, we all owe DeWilde a little thanks too. Because of his addiction, he feels his rights are more important than ours. So he shows no respect or consideration for anyone else's. Del. Cranwell thought courtesy was the way to go, but DeWilde and people like him proved Cranwell wrong. So Cranwell was forced to change his tobacco bill to a clean-air bill.\ MERLE H. WATTS\ ROANOKE

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