Now WHAT am I to say about THAT? 
Posted on 09/07/2002 4:53:15 AM PDT by SheLion
HUMAN SERVICES. . . . . . . . . NEWS
Maine Department of Human Services
11 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333
Tel. (207) 287-2546
Fax (207) 287-3005
TDD (207) 287-4479
Contact: Dora A. Mills, MD, Director
DHS Bureau of Health
Tel. (207) 287-3270
David S. Winslow, Director
DHS Office of Public and Legislative Affairs
Tel. (207) 287-2546
AUGUSTA: "The Department of Human Services is proud to announce that we have submitted to the state Legislature a statewide, smoke-free restaurant bill with broad, bi-partisan support," announced DHS Commissioner Kevin W. Concannon today. "Our goal with the bill is to protect workers in Maine restaurants as well as Maine children and adults rom the toxic hazards of secondhand smoke."
"Secondhand smoke kills, on average, one Maine person per day," explained Bureau of Health Director Dora Mills, MD. "A major exposure in the workplace to this toxic chemical continues to be restaurants, and we know that as a result of exposure, restaurant workers are much more likely to suffer from lung cancer, heart disease, and respiratory diseases."
"Restaurants are a common public place where children are exposed as well. Their developing lungs are much more susceptible to the toxic effects of secondhand smoke, and exposure to it causes sudden infant death syndrome, low birth weight, childhood asthma, pneumonia and ear infections," added Dr. Mills. "For this reason, our bill focuses on ensuring a smoke-free environment in restaurants that allow children."
"Since Portland’s restaurants have become smoke-free and a number of other communities are considering it, the timing of a statewide initiative seems right," commented Commissioner Concannon. "We are proud to have bi-partisan and independent support for the bill from legislators from every corner of the state."
The bill is sponsored by Rep. David Etnier (D, Harpswell)
Chief co-sponsor is Senate Majority Leader Chellie Pingree (D, Knox)
Co-Sponsors include:
Senate President Mark Lawrence, (D, York)
Senate Minority Leader Jane Amero, (R, Cumberland)
Senator Jill Goldthwait, (I, Hancock)
Senator S. Peter Mills, (R, Somerset)
Speaker of the House Stephen Rowe, (D, Portland)
Health and Human Services Committee House Chair Tom Kane, (D, Saco)
Representative Irvin Belanger, (R, Caribou)
Representative Joe Bruno, (R, Raymond)
In addition to the legislative sponsors of the bill, the Maine Coalition for Smoking or Health, led by Dr. Stephen Sears of Augusta, has made a smoke-free restaurant bill a priority for this legislative session.
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Now WHAT am I to say about THAT?
Jeez Joe, I'm trying my best but one man can only smoke so much, ya know.
And try as I might, not one of 'em has tummbled over dead in front of me.
Yet.
I thought it was pretty good. You didn't like my email, Joe?
Your buddy is a co-sponsor too! heh
Speaker of the House Stephen Rowe, (D, Portland)
No, no, the e-mail was fine.
I was talking about the public in general.
oh ~whew! I was worried there for a minute. Your opinion means a lot to me Joe!
METESKY! I WAS JUST JOKING!!!!! hehe
Don't know why, She. After all, I am, "Just another Joe". ;^)
Darn it.
ahhhhhhhhhhh well shucks! 
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Prove it, Dora!
If restaurant workers actually do suffer from higher rates of lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory disease it is probably from breathing burning cooking oils, eating fatty foods for free and being exposed to numerous members of the public on a daily basis. One breathful of burning olive oil is about as damaging as inhaling a cartonful of cigarette smoke at one time.
If restaurant workers actually do suffer from higher rates of lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory disease it is probably from breathing burning cooking oils, eating fatty foods for free and being exposed to numerous members of the public on a daily basis. One breathful of burning olive oil is about as damaging as inhaling a cartonful of cigarette smoke at one time.
Dora spews more deceitful, dishonest and accurate lies then Saddam! I'm sick of it!
It bears repeating, although you will NEVER hear it from HER:
Federal Court Rules Against EPA on Second Hand Smoke
And I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S.Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue?"
Statistics and Data Sciences Group Projects On ETS
Funny how the anti's try to keep this information swept under the rugs. And funny how the the truth never makes it on the news or in print, isn't it?
Steve, I received email from Irvin. The man isn't running again. He is having a retirement dinner up here on the 21st of Sept. I felt like an ass.
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