Afdeling West Virgina in het nieuws

In een uitgebreid artikel in een krant in West Virginia werd deze week het portret geschilderd van Maryetta Ables, President van Forces West Virginia.


Maryetta verzet zich met hand en tand tegen een voorgesteld rookverbod in haar district en is daar erg succesvol in.


SHE USED to own a tobacco shop. She likes to smoke. She started when she was 13. At 51, she smokes a carton of hand-rolled menthols every week.


Maryetta AblesShe says she’s a “go-getter.” She says she’s also “rude, obnoxious and straightforward.”


So when the Braxton County Board of Health adopted the most stringent smoking ban in the state, did you think Maryetta Ables was going to just sit back and let it happen?Not a chance.


With the passion of Norma Rae and the persistence of Erin Brockovich, she’s waging a vehement crusade to block a rigorous smoking ban scheduled to start Jan. 1.


She devotes about 40 hours each week to her cause. “I still cook and clean and take care of our livestock and do community service,” she said. “But this is the major focus in my life because it’s so wrong.”


WV Sunday Gazette

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  • "Es ist schwieriger, eine vorgefaßte Meinung zu zertrümmern als ein Atom."
    (Het is moeilijker een vooroordeel aan flarden te schieten dan een atoom.)
    Albert Einstein

  • "Als je alles zou laten dat slecht is voor je gezondheid, dan ging je kapot"
    Anonieme arts

  • "The effects of other people smoking in my presence is so small it doesn't worry me."
    Sir Richard Doll, 2001

  • "Een leugen wordt de waarheid als hij maar vaak genoeg wordt herhaald"
    Joseph Goebbels, Minister van Propaganda, Nazi Duitsland


  • "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • "There''s no such thing as perfect air. If there was, God wouldn''t have put bristles in our noses"
    Coun. Bill Clement

  • "Better a smoking freedom than a non-smoking tyranny"
    Antonio Martino, Italiaanse Minister van Defensie

  • "If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won't go."
    Mark Twain

  • I've alllllllways said that asking smokers "do you want to quit?" and reporting the results of that question, as is, is horribly misleading. It's a TWO part question. After asking if one wants to quit it must be followed up with "Why?" Ask why and the majority of the answers will be "because I'm supposed to" (victims of guilt and propaganda), not "because I want to."
    Audrey Silk, NYCCLASH