Success from 1972

At our 1972 General Assembly, we passed a General Resolution calling for “the banning of smoking from all closed places of public meeting.”¹

We were out front on this issue, as this was one year before Arizona became the first state to have some smoke-free public places.²

It was a small social justice issue, yet it’s good to see the arc of the universe still bending towards justice!³

 

 

^{1 “Smoking in Public Places,” UUA.org, June 1972, https://www.uua.org/action/statements/smoking-public-places}

^{2 Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Acute Coronary Events, The Background of Smoking Bans (National Academies Press (US), 2010), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219563/.}

^{3 Unitarian Minister Theodore Parker, 1853}