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Where are smoke editorials?

For two decades the Spokesman-Review has railed against the effects of secondhand smoke. That was a good thing. But there has been no editorial about the effects of secondhand marijuana smoke. I wonder why, since smoking marijuana is the primary form of THC delivery. That secondhand smoke can be dangerous to us all. Is it because the marijuana industry is buying large amounts of advertising in the S-R paper that there is no investigative reporting?

John Bunch

Mead

(Editor’s note: The two most recent S-R editorials on secondhand smoke were endorsements of proposed indoor smoking bans in Washington (2005) and Idaho (2007). Marijuana was illegal at the time. It’s still illegal to smoke it in public. Secondhand smoke is a health concern, regardless of the delivery method.)

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