LETTERS ON TOBACCO PROHIBITION VOTE

Regarding Assemblyman Carl Washington's (DParamount)
deciding vote in the Assembly Labor Committee to extend
smoking in bars, July 10:
Out of the mouths of babes, or freshman Assembly members, in
this case. Washington has shown how votes are traded, even
against personal convictions. Trading votes isn't just illegal, it's
immoral, especially when the health of thousands of California bar
workers is at stake.
H.M. NACHENBERG
Ventura
* By voting in favor of the tobacco industry's bill to delay the
ban on smoking in bars, Washington not only broke the law, he
voted to increase the state's expenditures on health care, to increase
the number of people who develop respiratory diseases (i.e.,
pneumonia and bronchitis) and to decrease the life expectancy of
thousands of people. Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren should prosecute
Washington for both illegally trading votes and jeopardizing the
health of millions of Californians.
MARK J. CHEKAL
West Hollywood
* I am surprised that this being a country of choice no one has
come up with the idea of smoking and nosmoking bars. Thus giving
staff a choice to work in either. Let's face it, smoking will not go
away by outlawing itremember Prohibition.
JOHN McGUINESS
Los Angeles

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