North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol. 55

Download or read book North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol. 55 written by Francis A Neelon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol. 55: For Doctors and Their Patients; January 1994 Critics took us to task on the issue of lobbying tobacco legisla tion, accusing the North Carolina leadership of rolling over, of abandoning the high moral ground, of not fully supporting our Tobacco Task Force and our Cancer Committee's hard work. Our Legislative Cabinet would see it differently. Like good tacticians, we reserved our troops to fight again at a time and place where we could achieve a victory. That opportunity came when Dr. Ron Levine, State health director, and I coordinated a letter-writing campaign to all component society leaders and to county health department directors urging passage of localsmoking control rules before the October 15 expiration date of the state statutes relating to this issue. As of November 1993, 31 counties have community-wide smoking regulations and 25 additional counties have restricted smoking in county and city buildings. This effort was such a huge success that the Tobacco Institute of Washington is considering a lawsuit in several eastern counties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.