Posted on 07/08/2002 7:33:23 AM PDT by SheLion
General Motors' Adoption of Smoke-Free Policy in All Ingham County Plants Hailed by Smoke-Free Environments Law Project of The Center for Social Gerontology.
The Center for Social Gerontology (TCSG), based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and its Smoke-Free Environments Law Project hailed the actions of the General Motors Corporation in adopting a total ban on smoking in all its Ingham County, Michigan plants and facilities, effective August 5, 2002.
Jim Bergman, TCSG Co-Director and head of the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project said: "General Motors management is to be highly praised for announcing the adoption of a totally smoke-free policy in all their Ingham County auto plants. Having worked very closely with the Ingham County Commissioners and Health Department on the adoption of a county-wide smoke-free worksite regulation, which was enacted on February 12, 2002, we at the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project are aware that General Motors could have sought permission to create designated smoking areas in their plants. Instead, they have opted to 'adopt a wall-to-wall no smoking policy' which applies to 'all employees, contractors and visitors,' effective August 5, 2002.
This is a tremendous victory for workers - old and young - whose health was threatened by secondhand smoke in General Motors facilities, a number of whom sought help from our Smoke-Free Environments Law Project in recent years. We also commend the Ingham County Health Department for their work with General Motors on this policy."
"The adoption by General Motors of a total ban on smoking in its Ingham County facilities is huge - for GM workers and in its implications for all businesses. This action by General Motors shows that corporations of any size can adapt to smoke-free policies and that union members - most of whom are not smokers - will accept such policies for their own health and the health of their co-workers. We hope and expect that other corporations will follow the lead of GM in adopting smoke-free policies," stated Bergman.
To access a copy of the General Motors smoke-free policy online, go to http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/images/GM.jpg To access a copy of the Ingham County smoke-free regulation, go to http://www.ingham.org/BC/adoptedsmokingregulation.PDF
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The Center for Social Gerontology (TCSG), was founded in 1972 as a nonprofit, research, training and social policy organization, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Smoke-Free Environments Law Project (SFELP) is a statewide project of TCSG which provides information, consultation and advice for businesses, local units of government, and individuals in Michigan on policies and practices to protect employees and the general public from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke and to address the legal requirements and liability issues related to secondhand smoke.
For comprehensive information on this topic, go to the web site of the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project at http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/home.htm.
Well, I think they will have one ell-ava fight on their hands. What are they going to do to us? Inprison us or shoot us!
Don't answer that question. heh!
Yes I see a lot of that too, drove from Ontario to Ohio this summer, you wouldn't believe the litter on the highways.
The ANTI's showing up here, are the type who likes every little law and regulation coming down the pike, they sure don't sound like free thinkers to me.
By the sound of it, it wasn't GM's idea.
That will be a first...... are you going to insist the doctor signs it thus.
And, no; as indicated, her relationship to me is not such that itis my call. And Doctors have their requirements.
Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer and other health problems. The EPA estimates that secondhand smoke causes approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths and 37,000 heart disease deaths in nonsmokers each year.A friend who has had his grandchild in the hospital 3 times already (she is 4 months old) has had her tested and found she is suffering from the second hand smoke of her parents. She now has respiratory and asthmatic problems.
"Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examined Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne in the meeting house in Salem Village. Tituba confessed to practicing witchcraft.
"Over the next weeks, other townspeople came forward and testified that they, too, had been harmed by or had seen strange apparitions of some of the community members. As the witch hunt continued, accusations were made against many different people.
"Frequently denounced were women whose behavior or economic circumstances were somehow disturbing to the social order and conventions of the time.[my emphasis] Some of the accused had previous records of criminal activity, including witchcraft, but others were faithful churchgoers and people of high standing in the community."
On average, it takes a male smoker over 50 pack years to develop lung cancer. Only 5% of ever-smokers will contract lung cancer, at all.
At the most, people exposed to second-hand smoke inhale the equivalent of 1% of the smoke inhaled by a smoker.
Therefore, on average, it would take over 5,000 pack years for a non-smoker exposed to SHS to contract lung cancer. For a female non-smoker, it would take a significantly lower 3,700 pack years.
There is most certainly a witch-hunt going on in 2002, and those pursuing it are just as stupid as the 17th Century residents of Salem.
I know it's hard to lose a friend, but would you consider 78 to be a premature death?
Or would you consider that this woman has lived out her Biblical three score and ten and recieved eight bonus years?
So, are you pure "property rights" on this? Or merely using those rights to hide an anti-smoking agenda?
Why would you say something patently untrue? There is zero proof that second smoke causes lung cancer. Are you so caught up in your societal babysitting on this issue that you'll adopt any means to the ends?
Even a conservative media, couldn't spin away Hitler as the first "FANATIC ANTI SMOKER."
Sorry RBA, I have seen you post before and you seemed to be a reasonable person, but as far as you insisting on second hand smoke as a great danger you are incorrect, and you have fallen into the trap of the discredited EPA.
I truly am sorry your frind has lung cancer, but she is 78, and the older we get, the more chance of developing a cancer......... any kind of cancer.
I read a little piece yesterday, it was a comparison of smokers v non-smokers, although they could prove differences in lifespan and increased cancer risk, the risk of cancer to smokers is 3%, so how in the world can second hand smoke rate as high as you and the EPA claims.
Why cant they terminate fat people? Anyone 10 pounds overweight is fired. Obesity causes more deaths than any other cause - it is a known health hazard which no one disputes. Fat people are generally slow, thus producing less output which results in lower profits and higher prices affecting everyone, they have higher insurance costs. Fat people are also disgusting, dirty, sweaty, and have no self control. I would hire an industrious smoker that produces and does a good job instead of a fat person any day.
What I am "implying” is that the war on the smokers is reaching fever pitch in the United States. If you don’t believe it’s not comparable to the jackboots wearing brown shirts, then you haven’t been following the news.
EXCUSE ME! But the Federal Court threw out that 1993 EPA's study in 1998. Funny, isn't it, how that doesn't make the news. And funny isn't it, how people like you still believe it. Once an anti always an anti....
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