The local paper carried an article about Leo’s push for making our city smoke free by next summer. Made top of the front page. I’m quite proud of this man of mine! He’s working hard for this. Hope it is successful since we now have a mayor who is not too much in favor of this. You can read about it here.
And I’ll tell you a secret – well it is not exactly a secret but Leo used to smoke many years ago. His whole family smoked(except his sister) and his mom died of congestive heart failure that was certainly not helped by her smoking. Leo succumbed to my wishes that he stop smoking when we were just dating. I supplied him with carrots to munch on instead of his lighting up a smoke. He turned orange but he kicked the habit. And we were married and have lived happily ever after!
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Go for it Leo! Go for it P.A.!
California is a wonderful place to live — warm, beautiful, interesting — but the thing that makes it most liveable compared to other places I’ve visited is that we have a public smoking ban.
Amazing what a carrot will do………
Linea,
My husband’s Dad passed away a year ago from emphysema/lung cancer which passed through to his bones. Watching him die before our eyes, little by little, slowly….it took approx. a year for the cancer to take his life…well, I am behind Leo 100% in his push to get the city smoke-free!!
I wish him strength, courage and little opposition in his endeavor!!
Congratulations Leo!!