Breathing is still a very popular thing to do!
No one should be forced to breathe secondhand smoke.  No one.
    No one should be forced into smoking secondhand.  No one.
        No one has the right to hurt another person.  No one.
       And secondhand smoke hurts, and kills!
    It is expensive for individuals and businesses --
And, may lead to liability suits.

GASP® Virginia Group to Alleviate Smoking in Public, Inc.

Updated 1 October 2008

[Virginia GASP logo]    

Virginia's current no-smoking law

September 2008 -- Norfolk, Virginia
City Council to take up  cowardly approach to no-smoking in restaurants -- the tobacco industry approved way
Part of History -- Norfolk, VA City Council refused to support employee & customer health in restaurants

Attempted 2008 Virginia legislation and
Excerpts 2008 articles, editorials, & letters to the editor (including two in July, 2008), continuing coverage on Virginia's no-smoking legislation

Terrie Suit has resigned mid-term to pursue lobbying career

Ohio judge -- no constitutional right to smoke in public!

2008 Newest Entries -- health vs. tobacco
    such as -- Nova Scotia bans smoking in cars around kids,
    and more articles.

The Face of Evil

Review of the selected entries for 2007

Contents Page & Links
Information Secondhand Smoke

Tobacco Shareholder Meetings
**2008 Philip Morris/Altria, held Wed., May 28, 9 am
Richmond, Virginia, in the
    Ballroom of the Richmond Convention Center
No Smoking in meeting
Four health resolutions (PM/Altria opposed):
**Apply Globally Practices Demanded by the Master Settlement              Agreement
**Stop Youth-Oriented Ad Campaigns
**"Two Cigarette" Approach to Marketing
**Endorse Health Care Principles
Additionally, two resolutions on executive pay and cumulative voting were on the agenda.

REPORT on 2007 PM/Altria meeting

**2008 Reynolds American held Tues., May 6, 9 am
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the
    Reynolds American Plaza Building Auditorium
No Smoking in meeting
Three health resolutions considered (Reynolds opposed):
**Human Rights Protocols for the Company and its Suppliers
**Endorsement of Health Care principles
**Two Cigarette Approach to Marketing
The text of the resolutions and the text of the company's opposition is given at the linked web page.

REPORT on 2007 Reynolds meeting
       
**2008 U.S. Tobacco held Tues., May 6, Connecticut

And, earlier Tobacco Shareholder meetings

And,  Litigation, and links including a decision regarding payment to the Rosenblatts for years of work on the Engle case.
 
General information on Virginia GASP®
is in this web site, including the original purpose,
the accomplishments, and that this group
does not solicit funding.
From the beginning, this has been a non-profit organization, all volunteers. 

Literary references -- Virginia GASP®
was featured in
    The Passionate Nonsmokers' Bill of Rights, by Bill Adler, Jr. & Steve Allen;
and mentioned in
    Dr. David A. Kessler's, A Question of Intent:  A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry.

Virginia Group to Alleviate Smoking in Public, Inc., GASP®
   .
Contact information:
4856 Haygood Road, #102
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23455, USA
1-757-490-0126
"... to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived --
           this is to have succeeded."

           R. W. Emerson

[VirginiaGASP]  Updated 1 October 2008

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