The Onion | Anti-Chewing-Tobacco Activists Speak Out Against Secondhand Spit

"RALEIGH, NC—The ever-embattled tobacco industry suffered another blow Monday, as citizens' groups challenged the major smokeless-tobacco companies to confront the quality-of-life issues associated with secondhand spit.
A non-chewing bargoer sits next to a tobacco chewer in Wilmington, DE.
Above: A non-chewing bargoer sits next to a tobacco chewer in Wilmington, DE.

'This isn't the '50s, when you would see TV commercials with lab-coat-wearing doctors spitting chewing tobacco right on the examination-room floor,' said activist Helen Pertwee of The Great American Tobacco Backwash, a citizens' group dedicated to fighting the rising tide of secondhand tobacco spit in public places. 'In this day and age, we are much more informed about the consequences of secondhand spit, and non-chewers are refusing to expose ourselves to it.'" (Read the rest at The Onion)

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