Mass Killings --- nothin's gonna change until ...... There is disruption.

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8. Smoking ---I can talk to that one. It took over 30 years, from 1972 to 2006 for the public smoking reform in N.J.

It started in a living room in Summit, N.J. Regina Carlson decided she had has enough. For a couple of years, she went from town council meeting to meeting. At first she was laughed at. The Tobacco Institute said she was "like being pecked to death by ducks."

She wrote letters to her town paper (remember those?). People started approaching her at the end of her presentations. They wanted to work with her.

About a year later, she started N.J.G.A.S.P. (Group Against Smoking Pollution). She got radio interviews, along with callers from surrounding states, wanting to make their states smoke free. Towns began issuing smoke free ordinances which were challenged in courts and sustained.

And on and on, until the NJ legislature passed Smoke Free N.J. Bill.


THE PROBLEM IS - we already have national organizations But we have corrupt legislators and a corrupt court.

Yes. Where do we go from here?