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NRA: America's Next Big Tobacco?
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a loving household with wonderful working class parents—who smoked in the house and the car with me and my sister breathing daily their second-hand smoke. My parents would have done anything for us, including risking their own lives for our safety.
Yet they smoked right there beside us, filled our living room and our cars with their tobacco smoke.
It seems nearly impossible now for us to comprehend how it took the U.S. public so long to come to grips with the slow and insidious harm tobacco products have incurred on both users and innocent bystanders, including children.
It seems nearly impossible now for us to comprehend that we were somehow shocked to discover that Big
Yet they smoked right there beside us, filled our living room and our cars with their tobacco smoke.
It seems nearly impossible now for us to comprehend how it took the U.S. public so long to come to grips with the slow and insidious harm tobacco products have incurred on both users and innocent bystanders, including children.
It seems nearly impossible now for us to comprehend that we were somehow shocked to discover that Big
