Thursday, July 20, 2006
It is About Time
It is About Time!
Today the Marriott International Inc. announced the nations largest hotel chain announced that they will ban smoking in all of its 400,000 rooms in the USA and Canada. My question is what took them so long. It is no secret that second hand smoke is just as harmful as lighting up.
Watson, Kristen - Prevention; Jun2006, Vol. 58 Issue 6, p40-40, 1/4p
The article reports that exposure to second-hand smoke raises the risk of breast-cancer in premenopausal women by 70%. In confined spaces, smoke is concentrated, increasing toxins inhaled by 10 times. California has placed tobacco smoke on its list on environmental hazards with the same ranking as automobile and industrial pollution.
It amazes me that people have been so intoxicated with marketing rather than facts. The research is available and education is liberating. Smoking cessation classes are sponsored by most county health departments at a reasonable cost or free. I would like to appeal to people’s common sense; there are toxins in cigarettes that are used in rat poisoning. So why are you still smoking?
If you do not value your own life value the lives of the people around you.
It is about time!
Reflecting on the Obvious
William T Chaney Jr
Today the Marriott International Inc. announced the nations largest hotel chain announced that they will ban smoking in all of its 400,000 rooms in the USA and Canada. My question is what took them so long. It is no secret that second hand smoke is just as harmful as lighting up.
Watson, Kristen - Prevention; Jun2006, Vol. 58 Issue 6, p40-40, 1/4p
The article reports that exposure to second-hand smoke raises the risk of breast-cancer in premenopausal women by 70%. In confined spaces, smoke is concentrated, increasing toxins inhaled by 10 times. California has placed tobacco smoke on its list on environmental hazards with the same ranking as automobile and industrial pollution.
It amazes me that people have been so intoxicated with marketing rather than facts. The research is available and education is liberating. Smoking cessation classes are sponsored by most county health departments at a reasonable cost or free. I would like to appeal to people’s common sense; there are toxins in cigarettes that are used in rat poisoning. So why are you still smoking?
If you do not value your own life value the lives of the people around you.
It is about time!
Reflecting on the Obvious
William T Chaney Jr
Monday, July 17, 2006
Religion functions a
Religion functions as the moral and ethical interpreter of community norms. These norms are expressed as beliefs, values, rituals, sacraments and proverbs. Each religion has a set of sacred texts that communicate the essential and critical thought constructs that shape and form the religion.
I am concerned that many of our churches do not communicate the religion I see Jesus teaching about or embracing. There were two simple commands. Love the Lord your God and Love your neighbor as yourself. The definition of neighbor most people have is “only people who look like me, act like me and think like me.” Shouldn’t the definition be all of God’s children?
Have an awesome Day - WTC
I am concerned that many of our churches do not communicate the religion I see Jesus teaching about or embracing. There were two simple commands. Love the Lord your God and Love your neighbor as yourself. The definition of neighbor most people have is “only people who look like me, act like me and think like me.” Shouldn’t the definition be all of God’s children?
Have an awesome Day - WTC
