O<i> ur readers wrote letters throughout 1986 expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters. We appreciate their taking the time to share their viewpoints and look forward to hearing from you in 1987.</i>
Anti-Smoking ordinance:
In California, 63 cities and counties representing over 45% of the state’s population have adopted regulations that require smoking policies in private workplaces. The chambers of commerce in most of those communities strongly opposed the ordinances before they were passed and predicted the same sort of dire consequences as those imagined by the Anaheim chamber.
Once the ordinances were enacted they were found to be very routine in their implementation, with few complaints or problems.
Perhaps the poor prediction record of the chambers of commerce is a result of the quality of information on smoking ordinances they receive from the Tobacco Institute. These are the same folks who still claim that smoking is not harmful to smokers, the medical equivalent of saying the Earth is flat.
MERRILL J. MATCHETT
Anaheim
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