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RICHMOND — Spokesmen for three major health-advocacy organizations in Virginia have Masted a recent state legislative proposal on second-hand smoke by the powerful Tobacco Lobby as a “smokescreen for special interest over public interest.”
At a state capitol news conference, spokesmen for the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association of Virginia, which represent more than 230,000 volunteers statewide, announced plans for a reasonable Clean Indoor Air act. The agencies also launched Virginians for Clean Indoor Air, a citizen initiative to protect the public breathing space.
During the news conference, the three agencies criticized the anticlean indoor air proposal recently circulated and expected to be introduced by the Tobacco Lobby in the 1990 session of the General Assembly.
A series of meetings including the health agencies, Tobacco Institute representatives, several state lawmakers and others was held over the summer. As a result of the meetings, legislation has been proposed by the Tobacco Institute, but Dr. William W. Miller of the American Heart Association said, “The attempt to call this proposal drawn up by the Tobacco Institute and others a ‘compromise’ is ridiculous. The only thing it would compromise is the public health. Our association will not compromise on public health,” Dr. Miller said.
“Through clever legal twisting of the language, the Tobacco Lobby re
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