BY JOHN “SKIP” COLEMAN
If you would ask firefighters in Toledo who knew me from 1975 until 1989 or so to picture me in their mind during that time, that vision would probably have a cigarette associated with it. I smoked big time—probably three or four packs a day at work easily. I quit smoking in 1989.
Today, Toledo does not allow smoking in the station or on city property, on apparatus, or at the emergency scene. I do not believe that the city has banned tobacco use altogether while on duty, but it has become very hard to light up.
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