[AGL] Second hand

[Harry Edwards]

for those who still think smoking in public places is not a health 
issue:

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?Anti-smoking activist dies of lung cancer
Tue May 23, 2006 5:03 PM ET


TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian anti-smoking campaigner who contracted 
lung cancer from second-hand smoke after years as a waitress has died, 
Ontario's Heart and Stroke Foundation said on Tuesday.

Heather Crowe, 61, became a public icon after winning a landmark 2002 
labor compensation case by arguing that she contracted the disease from 
inhaling second hand smoke during her 40-year career as a waitress.

An ardent non-smoker, she appeared in national television 
advertisements and inspired a government sponsored award in her name. 
In one ad Crowe declared: "People shouldn't have to go to work to die."

Her death came only days before new legislation in the provinces of 
Ontario and Quebec is to come into effect, banning smoking in enclosed 
public areas and workspaces, and further restricting the promotion and 
sale of tobacco products.

Supporters of Crowe want her to remain the public face of anti-smoking. 
Ontario's Heart and Stroke Foundation CEO Rocco Rossi is campaigning to 
have May 31, the day the province's anti-smoking legislation is 
enacted, be declared Heather Crowe Day.

Total sales of cigarettes in Canada decreased over the past year by 2.5 
percent, according to April government statistics.