We Have The Right To Breathe
Paddock Publications
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Daily Herald Newspaper
January 21, 2008
To the editor: While burning wood is a choice, just as smoking cigarettes is choice, it is destructive to human lungs, the environment and our food and water supply. Wood smoke fine particulates do not break down, but accumulate in the environment and in our lungs -- and they contain many cancer-causing toxins. Nevertheless, it is a choice.
Breathing is not a choice, but is an inalienable right. You may choose to burn wood, or to smoke, but you did not choose to breathe. Wood burners do not have the right to contaminate the lungs of others without their permission. Anything that interferes with someone others' right to breathe can and must be regulated!
Outdoors, kids play sports, run, ride their bikes, skate and skateboard -- all done in a haze of harmful smoke in the air that they breathe. Please contact your city officials and ask what they would choose -- to burn or to breathe?
Julie Mellum, President
Take Back the Air
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