Another Aspect of Sen. Verda Welcome

By John O’ Hara, Bowie; President: Maryland Group Against Smoker’s Pollution

former Sen. Verda Welcome in the February 

first African American woman elected

time in many ways. For example, in

of tobacco-control legislation in the

extreme courage because at that time

was a tobacco-growing state, and

courage to address the issue. She holds

tobacco-control movement. I regret

to see the state Clean Indoor Air Act

signed into law in 2007.