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Posted on 04/30/2006 8:31:10 AM PDT by SheLion
While a growing majority of Americans favor smoking restrictions in public places, many adults still expose their children to significant health risks by puffing tobacco at home, a Mississippi State University researcher reports.
In a scientific paper presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Francisco, Robert McMillen, MD cites changes in adult attitudes and behaviors over the past six years regarding secondhand smoke.
McMillen’s report, “Changes from 2000 to 2005 in U.S. Adult Attitudes and Practices Regarding Children’s Exposure to Secondhand Smoke,” stems from his comprehensive 2000 National Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control.
“The vast majority of adults in 2005—97 percent-- recognized the dangers of exposure to secondhand smoke from parental smoking ,” McMillen found. “Yet, a tenth of households—10 percent—allow indoor smoking in the presence of children.”
The 2000 survey was funded by MSU’s Social Science Research Center, where McMillen is an associate research professor and leading authority on secondhand smoke; the Center for Child Health Research of the American Academy of Pediatrics; and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
A newly appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the AAP’s Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence for Children in Chicago, McMillen said data in his latest report “have a number of implications for clinical and community interventions.
“While they demonstrate significant improvement in many indicators of adult attitudes and practices, homes serve as settings for intense secondhand smoke exposure, and many public settings that children frequent still are not smoke free,” he determined.
“A growing majority of adults in the U.S. favor restrictions on smoking in public settings, suggesting that many communities across the nation have the public support for much broader public smoking restriction policies,” he concluded.
McMillen and his research team conducted six annual cross-sectional household telephone surveys in the summers of 2000-2005, while numerous state and national tobacco control programs were being implemented. The surveys included national probability samples of adults from all 50 states, and had a response rate of 75-87 percent.
Support for smoking bans increased from:
--71 to 80 percent in shopping malls;
--61 to 71 percent in restaurants;
--77 to 82 percent in fast-food restaurants;
--25 to 39 percent in outdoor parks; and
--78 to 82 percent in indoor sporting events.
Regarding household practices, support increased from 69 to 77 percent for smoke-free homes; and from 79 to 90 percent for smoking bans when children are present.
Community practices that included smoking bans increased from:
--75 to 83 percent in indoor shopping malls;
--68 to 80 percent in convenience stores;
--52 to 72 percent in fast-food restaurants;
--25 to 45 percent in restaurants; and
--8 to 15 percent in outdoor parks.
Mississippi State’s Social Science Research Center, headed by Art Cosby, conducts basic and applied research encompassing social and economic development, families and children, alcohol safety, substance abuse, and a range of other issues.
Look at his screen name - he is a government stooge. He relies on the government to provide his livelihood. So he is going to accept anything they tell him, because without government he would be out of a job. He LOVES taxes, he loves big government - it's very, very simple.
And anyone that loves taxes hates freedom, conservatism, and smaller government - dear old Ray belongs at DU not at FR, and I was saying that about him when we were still calling him "Minnie" - guess he couldn't handle that.
Thank you, my friend.......but I am about over the wheee-wheee thing and the critters that created it. It's only here to antagonize a few of the folks on these threads. I know it, they know it, and so do a bunch of other folks.
S/h/it's a typical anti - can't think for itself, just has to spout the mantra handed down by the controllers. gotta feel sorry for those kinds..........at least sort of feel sorry for them........
"Minnie"
That's pretty good. I particularly despise the little picture (with the goons taking the kids)he seems so proud of. Whats funny to me about these types is they think they are exempt. Fools, fools, fools.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!
Our "FRiend" changed his screen name from VRWCminion - that's where the "minnie" comes from........he will always be such in my book.
Thanks for the ping!
Of course, it helps to have that "fill-up-the-door" thing going on.
S/h/it's a typical anti - can't think for itself, just has to spout the mantra handed down by the controllers. gotta feel sorry for those kinds..........at least sort of feel sorry for them........
That's for sure. BTW, non (never) smoker here.
And, the beat goes on...
Thanks for the ping!
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Put up or shut up, as the saying goes.
This is what I mean: their personal attacks against smokers. Mean, nasty and hateful. Like a 14 year-old gang at school. Bully's.
If they think they will intimidate smokers into quitting just by pounding their fist on the table........well, they are living in a dream world. I think it's really a way for them to be the 6'5" man in their own mind, when they sit in front of a monitor and pound out nasty posts to us. Hoping we will believe that he is 6'5". Know what I mean?
Also, I feel anyone in here, to which we cannot see, is a movie star in their own minds. And when they are on the Internet, they can be anyone they desire. :)
They sure aren't making many friends in FR though.
Unfortunately, here is what they probably look like. heh!
Not that a guy like this wouldn't be one of the sweetest men on earth, but when they look like this and then they spew hate toward a group of people because we smoke, well, I am sure you get the picture.
Even Rush talked about this last week:
"The World Health Organization actually did a study on secondhand smoke which showed that it doesn't even make people sick, much less kill them. Now, it makes people uncomfortable. They don't like it. I don't like secondhand cigarette smoke myself -- it reeks -- but it doesn't kill. It doesn't." - Rush Limbaugh
I looked in the Newsletter and found this about smoking in cars in Arkansas:
(AR kids in cars ban update)
Lighting up with young kids in vehicle banned under bill - Arkansas
April 29, 2006
JAKE BLEED AND MICHAEL R. WICKLINE
House Bill 1046 started out as a joke to just about everyone but Bob Mathis. And now it’s his turn to laugh.
The Hot Springs Democrat and reformed smoker spent much of this week in strong opposition to a bill to ban smoking in most workplaces.
It was a Mathis amendment that came close to killing that bill, says Gov. Mike Huckabee, the primary supporter of the measure.
So when Mathis filed a bill Wednesday evening to ban smoking in cars carrying young children who are restrained in car seats, a lot of people laughed. They didn’t take him or his bill very seriously, Mathis says.
But he showed up Thursday morning ready to fight. He got his bill through the House Rules Committee at noon, then through the full House just before 5 p. m., representatives approving it 58-13, with 29 House members not voting.
The bill went to the Senate on Thursday night, shot through the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare and Labor around lunchtime Friday, and wound up on the Senate floor just before 2 p. m.
Sen. Terry Smith, D-Hot Springs, the Senate sponsor of the bill, said the measure means adults would be barred from smoking in vehicles with children in child safety seats.
“Let’s do something for kids,” Smith said in a brief introduction of the bill.
Senators passed it 33-1, sending it to the governor.
Huckabee at one point Friday told Senate President Pro Tempore Jim Argue, D-Little Rock, that Mathis “was basically doing the bill as a joke and the darn thing passed both ways.”
Huckabee said Friday afternoon that the bill sounded like a great idea.
“It’s obviously protecting the child against secondhand smoke,” the governor said at a news conference Friday. “I think it’s a great bill. I’m glad that’s cleared both houses. Delighted.”
HB 1046 went from laughable to laudable in under two days.
Mathis says the bill fit snugly into the already hard lobbying being done in support of the ban on smoking in the workplace. That bill, Senate Bill 19 by Sen. Tracy Steele, D-North Little Rock, drew the lobbying power of the governor, the state’s chief health officer, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the Arkansas Medical Society and others.
“There was so much emphasis on the anti-smoking things, it seems like it just fit right in with everything else,” Mathis said.
Rep. Will Bond, D-Jacksonville, didn’t vote on the bill when it came up in the House on Thursday.
“What happened to that bill, by the way ?” he asked Friday evening.
Bond said he didn’t vote because he was too busy worrying about legislation meant to satisfy the state Supreme Court, bills that were the original reason for having the session in the first place.
“We were trying our very best to complete our work on the mandate for Lake View. To do it in a week, to show the public that we’re working our hardest,” Bond said. “Things get moving rather quickly.”
Mathis’ bill amends a section of existing law that requires children who are under the age of 6 and weigh less than 60 pounds to ride in a “safety seat properly secured to the vehicle,” according to Arkansas Code Annotated 27-34-104. Breaking that law can mean a fine of between $ 25 and $ 100.
Mathis’ bill simply bans smoking in all motor vehicles carrying children who are restrained in those seats. The bill carries a $ 25 fine, which can be waived if drivers prove they have entered a smoking cessation program.
Violating the bill would be a “primary offense,” Mathis said, meaning police could use violations of the bill to justify pulling someone over.
“And I’m tickled to death about it,” Mathis said.
He said he wasn’t particularly sure how police would determine the age or weight of children while trying to enforce the law. He said his bill was meant to be enforced in the same way as A. C. A. 27-34-104.
“I don’t know that the police are going to be out there with a scale weighing anybody,” Mathis said.
A spokesman for the Little Rock Police Department said he wasn’t too sure on how the law would be enforced in the field, either.
“That’s a good question,” said Little Rock Police Sgt. Terry Hastings.
“The law enforcement of it is something that would have to be worked out. If a parents says, ‘No, they’re 7,’ that could be a problem.”
Mathis, who is term limited, says the bill would become part of his legacy as a lawmaker. He said he regularly hassles other drivers when he sees them smoking in a car with children. Sometimes they give him dirty looks, Mathis said. Sometimes they give him “the obscene gesture.”
Huckabee declined to say Friday whether he would veto any of the bills passed in this special session. Information for this article was contributed by C. S. Murphy of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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I sure hear that!
And you know yourself that it's mighty easy to pound out hate on the computer. We aren't a physical threat to them, since we are all in different states. Makes it so easy for "light in the loafers" Joe to say whatever he wants to, to us.
As I've said - these people are pathetic, and their sycophants, such as we find here on FR, are even worse because they believe every word their controllers feed them.
They truly ARE pathetic, Gabz. I hate to say that I can usually look at a person and tell their stance right off the bat, but it's true.
If we came face-to-face with a couple of these people on the street, we would probably never know it was them, because I doubt if they would ever have the nerve to talk to us one-on-one like they try to get away with in here.
Joe and "Family"
Banzhaf. Two of the biggest pushers of anti-smoking propoganda ever. These guys are the ones at the helm responsible for the bans, control and restrictions put upon smokers today! And making big bucks by doing so.
George Dale will be on Super Talk Radio
this morning.
There is AM station on the coast that
carries it but I don't know where it is
on your dial.
And once again, my friend, you prove the point that we are better than they are. We are quite able to disagree on issues with each other, yet remain united in our opposition.
The antis, OTOH, must remain in lock-step agreement on all things and at all times lest they find themselves ostracized........just look at what has been happening to Micheal Siegal because he has dared to break ranks with the mindset of the cult of the antis. And that, in a nutshell, is just what the antis are - a cult.
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