HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 1210.038 2004-2006
Subject: Re:Testimony in support of Bill 365
Date: 12/19/2006 10:32:34 A.M. Hawaiian Standard Time
From: GMGlenvs(a,webtv.net
To: counciltestimony(a)co.hawaii.hi.us
Relating to Smoking in Certain Places in the County of Hawaii
Council Hearing Dec.20,'06
Dec. 19, '06
My name is Glenys Spitze and I strongly support Bill 365 which would
prohibit smoking in Kahaluu Beach Park. I highly commend the
council for addressing this important issue. The Hi.State second hand
smoking law, one of the strongest in the US, recognizes the hazards
of exposure to second hand smoke for work places & partially
enclosed public places. However, our own health and that of children
is endangered by permitting smoking at our beaches and all parks.
Discarded cigarette & cigar butts are not only dirty, unsightly, &
polluting but are particularly hazardous to small children handling and
poisonous to the fish when high tides sweep the sand into the water.
Important to me as a PPS survivor with breathing problems and life-
threatening sensitivity to tobacco smoke, ETS restricts my access to
swim, my only exercise, in the ocean at Kahaluu where I would like to
snorkel.. Please accept this as my written testimony in support of the
bill.
Mahalo for your attention.
Glenys Spitze
Hawaii Post Polio Survivors
Comm. No. Zlo•38
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