'Matriarch' of anti-smoking movement dies at 61

[SidDithers]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060523.CROWE23/TPStory/National

Heather Crowe, the waitress who became the tragic face of the non-smoking movement, died of lung cancer yesterday at 61. She had never smoked.

The Ottawa woman helped change attitudes toward the habit by telling her story in moving Health Canada commercials. She watched the country inch toward comprehensive smoking bans, but died only days before such legislation came into force in Ontario and Quebec.

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Ms. Crowe was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer four years ago and was given 10 months to live.

She rebounded, won a groundbreaking fight for workers' compensation benefits and agreed to become a public face in the crusade against second-hand smoke.


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May she rest in peace.

Sid