Posted on 07/17/2002 10:47:58 AM PDT by SheLion
GREEN BAY, Wis., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Bay Packer Ahman Green's participation in a Wisconsin ad campaign designed to raise awareness about the dangers of secondhand smoke was unveiled today. Green will be part of a series of television and radio advertisements that launched early-June and are being broadcast throughout Wisconsin. The new ads use personal stories told by Wisconsin residents who have suffered the effects of secondhand smoke.
Green is not a smoker himself, but he grew up in a household with a smoker and was diagnosed with asthma at age 14. The 25-year-old running back has to pay special attention to avoid smoke-filled environments in order to perform at his best. His personal experience and concerns for his own health and that of others has inspired him to share his story in hopes that it will lead to a smoke-free Wisconsin.
"Because my asthma is aggravated by secondhand smoke, I have to be very careful where I go. My options of which restaurants to eat at or what places I can go to often depend on whether there will be cigarette smoke in the air," says Green. "This can be frustrating and limiting, but staying healthy is important to me and vital to my career."
Green is featured in a television ad that takes place in a cafe. As he enters the smoke-filled cafe, he slips an oxygen mask over his face. The ad conveys the message that secondhand smoke can have serious effects on a nonsmoker. One of the most obvious places where cigarette smoke lingers is in bars and restaurants. Kathie Bundy, pub owner and performer from Manitowoc, WI is featured, along with Ahman Green, in the campaign ads. Bundy opened Stage Door Saloon, one of just a few nonsmoking pubs in Wisconsin. She is featured in a television ad that takes place in a smoke-filled restaurant. Bundy's story is meant to encourage other restaurants and bars to go smoke- free.
"Between concerns about my own health and complaints from nonsmoking customers, I decided that it was the right decision to go smoke-free," Bundy says. "Of course I had concerns about the repercussions this decision would have on my business, but the pub is as busy as ever and customers are happy they have a place to go that isn't filled with smoke."
Restaurant owners who are currently smoke-free or those owners who are considering making their restaurant smoke-free, can advertise their restaurant free of charge on the new Wisconsin Smoke-free Online Dining Guide. Owners simply log onto WWW.HADENOUGHWISCONSIN.COM , enter the Smoke-free Dining Guide section and submit requested information. All restaurant details will be verified and then posted. The new site feature was designed to encourage restaurants to go smoke-free and to support restaurant owners and customers that prefer a smoke-free environment.
The secondhand smoke media campaign is a component of the WTCB's statewide initiative for smoke-free restaurants, work sites, municipal buildings and homes. Each ad contains a tag line that directs viewers to the hadenoughwisconsin.com web site where visitors can share their own stories or seek help in quitting smoking.
The Wisconsin Tobacco Control Board is a Governor-appointed Board charged with developing a strategic plan, allocating funds and evaluating the effectiveness of Wisconsin's tobacco prevention and control efforts. The Board is comprised of state and local leaders representing businesses, education, health care, public health and political leaders from across the state.
Do you really think my relative is the only person to get lung cancer as a result of second hand smoke?????
Really? What have I said that is either whiny or hypocritical?
I was using the plural "you" meaning a large segment of the anti-smoking crowd (I may have been painting with too broad a brush with respect to the individual you). They are whiny because the make far to big a deal out of second hand smoke. As a non-smoker, I'd be delighted if everybody stopped smoking this afternoon, provided everyone did it voluntarily. Neither is it the pressure from anti-smokers convince others to "reform" that bothers me. It is that they immediately, or almost immediately, begin agitating for legislation. Speical interest legislation is the single most liberty destroying activity a democracy can undertake. Once the anti-smokers succeed, the command and control thinkers will move on, and on and on legislating against anything and everything until they hit the things you hold precious. In fact, they already want to control your diet, what you watch, what you read, where your children go to school, what you can do with your land, the list is too long to itmeize.
They are hypocrites because, as I said, usually, they'll choose to be seated immediately, rather than wait for non-smoking.
btw, I wait the 30 minutes for the non-smoking table.
Always? Every time? What if you are in a hurry? How about if your with a smoker? What would you do in France, say, where the restaurant has no non-smoking section?
Show me the study/proof that second hand smoke causes lung cancer.
Show me ANYONES death certificate that says they died of lung cancer caused by second hand smoke.
You can't do it. I have looked, and looked, and looked and can find NOTHING.
Don't give me anecdotal evidence, don't give me a MDs OPINION, show me a study that hasn't been refuted or overturned, that says second hand smoke has a more statistical chance of causing lung cancer than drinking milk.
The Temperance movement
Who repealed it?
The people of the US
'Nuff said.
All this talk about "personal freedoms" conveniently ignores the freedom I have to insist that I wish to breathe air, not your cigarette smoke.
The difference between you and I is that I'll listen to their 'spew' the same way I listen to your 'spew'.
Then I'll give you my 'spew'.
I'll bet mine has more common sense than either of the others.
Sorry, folks, I don't think you can classify me as having an addiction if I can go 3 or 4 days without the addicting substance.
And I guarantee that I can having done so a number of times.
Thanks.
Interesting questions.
If I'm in a hurry, I don't go to restaurants where there is going to be a wait.
If I'm with a smoker (unusual but occasionally happens I suppose), I still request a non-smoking section because cigarette smoke combining with food is nauseating to me. The smokers that I know (and would have occasion to accompany to a restaurant) are understanding and considerate enough that they wait until later to light up.
When I was in France, it wasn't really a problem. In all the restaurants where we dined I think I only saw people smoking at their tables once or twice and it was far enough from my table that I didn't smell their cigarette smoke.
Since you asked, the shouting in posts 72 and 76 of things like "GO AWAY" along with the name-calling, was discourteous.
Chemicals capable of producing mutations are both naturally-occurring and synthetic, and are found in the environment, food, and water supply, or have been used as drugs
Radiation (often referred to as "ionizing radiation"). If the mutated cells do not die, they may become transformed and eventually cause cancer (as in the skyrocketing incidence of leukemia after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan).
Viruses can inflict damage by inserting themselves into the DNA of an appropriate host cell, also known as its "genome", to cause cancer.
There are, I'm sure, many things that COULD cause cancers of various types.
I can't prove a negative. IOW, I can't prove that SHS DOESN'T cause cancer. It is on the anti-smokers heads to prove that it DOES.
Show you a death certificate proving WHAT. That someone died of cancer?
If you need more let me know.
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