Cigarettes do not belong in food and pharmacy

I am involved in health & nutrition. Natural Healing, working with your body systems to repair and to improve.

Years ago, it was discovered that I had several disabling chronic illnesses. Dr. Mantell and Boyle gently assisted me along with a regimen of massage, light therapy, vitamins and minerals. At this time, I would lay in my bed for app. 20 hrs. each day. Initially, I had 28 different supplements to take! Quite a feat! Had to make charts to mark each time, and what was to be taken when! After several months, the number of bottles decreased. I studied. I read Ballantine's books, Dr. Majid Ali's books, Natural Healing became my bible. I spent fewer excessive hours in bed. Life brightened a bit.

The dilemna was that I had what were called the invisible illnesses. People could not easily tell by looking at me! So they expected normal brain function and energy!

Years later, after using the Super Blue-Green Algae, I am functioning much better, but more on that later.

What I really want to write to you about now is cigarettes! I feel the need to write about this now as the local General Store/Deli is attempting to become a Co-op. A great idea up here, and you would think I would be the first on board. BUT!

They sell cigarettes in the store/deli. I do not know if they plan to discontinue this.

I have strong feelings about a known deadly toxin being sold where food, or where medicine is sold!

A few years ago, a study was done in homes of smokers that smoked outside. Inside their homes, nicotene was found on furniture, on toddler toys, on mugs, on the carpets! Imagine the toddler, the cat, the elderly mother exposed unknowingly to this!

I would like to see quantities of people campaigning against the sale of cigarettes in grocery and pharmacy. Letters, or in person, registering their disapproval, requesting that they stop carrying cigarettes.

Perhaps, it should be regulated, available only in certain locations. Some states regulate the sale of liquor to State Stores only.

As a child, I was exposed to cigarettes. My father was a smoker, even though he had severe emphysema. Forgive me for being graphic here. He would wretch up and spit out green and black phlegm! He died. He left me with weak lungs and throat, prone to strep throat and bronchitis. As a child, I was forbiden to run and jump (guess what I did whenever no person was around?!) as I could not breathe well (cigarette exposure).

I did not have asthma, nor do I now. Yet, I would lay in the bed, breathing heavily, and turning blue at the same time!

I have never even tried cigarettes in my life. How could anybody if they grew up with what I did!

Let us reach for optimum health! Let us not settle for the way things have been! Let us seriously face the realities, and act to insure the well-being of all!