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Department of Human Services Announces Smoke-Free Restaurant BillĀ 
7 September 2002

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

Department of Human Services Announces
Smoke-Free Restaurant Bill

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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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
hehe!

Now WHAT am I to say about THAT?

21 posted on 09/07/2002 9:16:54 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
Yeh, I read it.
I would like people to research and objectively look at issues instead of have a knee jerk reaction.
I guess I expect too much.
22 posted on 09/07/2002 9:20:40 AM PDT by Just another Joe
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To: Just another Joe
When can we expect to be able to move to this uninhabited state and make it a conservative haven?

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.

23 posted on 09/07/2002 9:31:47 AM PDT by metesky
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To: Just another Joe
Yeh, I read it.
I would like people to research and objectively look at issues instead of have a knee jerk reaction.
I guess I expect too much.

I thought it was pretty good. You didn't like my email, Joe?


24 posted on 09/07/2002 9:41:35 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: metesky
Hi Metesky!

Your buddy is a co-sponsor too! heh

Speaker of the House Stephen Rowe, (D, Portland)

25 posted on 09/07/2002 9:45:03 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
I thought it was pretty good. You didn't like my email, Joe?

No, no, the e-mail was fine.
I was talking about the public in general.

26 posted on 09/07/2002 9:58:32 AM PDT by Just another Joe
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To: Just another Joe
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!

27 posted on 09/07/2002 10:09:44 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: metesky
Speaker of the House Stephen Rowe, (D, Portland)

METESKY! I WAS JUST JOKING!!!!! hehe

28 posted on 09/07/2002 10:11:33 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
Your opinion means a lot to me Joe!

Don't know why, She. After all, I am, "Just another Joe". ;^)

29 posted on 09/07/2002 10:24:45 AM PDT by Just another Joe
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To: SheLion
#18......... Thats more like it. :-}}}
30 posted on 09/07/2002 10:40:54 AM PDT by Great Dane
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To: metesky
And try as I might, not one of 'em has tummbled over dead in front of me.

Darn it.

31 posted on 09/07/2002 10:42:20 AM PDT by Great Dane
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To: Just another Joe
Don't know why, She. After all, I am, "Just another Joe". ;^)


32 posted on 09/07/2002 11:14:30 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: Great Dane
#18......... Thats more like it. :-}}}

ahhhhhhhhhhh well shucks!

33 posted on 09/07/2002 11:16:24 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: *all
I will be back! Save my seat!


34 posted on 09/07/2002 11:30:15 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
Two more worthless bureaucracies to get rid of:

1) Department of Human Services

2) The Advertising Council (those sickly Public service Announcements)who has become a Socialist factor for:
The Advertising Council, Inc
Afterschool Alliance
American Cancer Society
American Psychological Association
Americans for the Arts
America's Second Harvest
Benton Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Children's Aid Society
Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America
ConAgra Foods' Feeding Children Better Foundation
Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities
Department of Justice
Earth Share
El Valor
Environmental Defense
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Voting Assistance Program
Give Kids The World
Library of Congress
Live Brave Coalition
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
National Association For The Education of Young Children
National Association of State Foresters
National Center for Family Learning
National Crime Prevention Council
National Education Association
National Fair Housing Alliance
National Fatherhood Initiative
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
National Urban League
Office of National Drug Control Policy
People For the American Way Foundation
Prevent Child Abuse America
Recruiting New Teachers, Inc
SHiNE
Save The Children
United Negro College Fund
United Way of New York City
US Army
US Department of Health and Human Services / HRSA / MCHB
US Department of Transportation / NHTSA
US Environmental Protection Agency
USA Freedom Corps
USDA Forest Service
  
It is time to cut the taxpayer funding...
35 posted on 09/07/2002 12:25:24 PM PDT by Vidalia
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To: Vidalia
oooooooooooh Gawd...........those TV ads make me Ill! If I am close enough to the TV, I grab the remote and put it on MUTE. Wow, do I hate those stupid things.
36 posted on 09/07/2002 1:09:22 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: spartan68
Go prepared, spartan. Arm yourself with the information on SheLion's website and let them know WE know this ain't about smoking...it's about POWER! And, we the people, intend to take it back.
37 posted on 09/07/2002 3:54:36 PM PDT by Max McGarrity
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To: SheLion
"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."

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.

38 posted on 09/09/2002 9:25:32 AM PDT by TigersEye
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To: TigersEye
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.

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?

39 posted on 09/09/2002 1:56:26 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
You should have threatened to not vote for him, even if you intend to. What reason does he have to take your position into consideration if he knows he has your vote anyway? I'm sure you hate to lie, but since you're dealing with politicans..."when in Rome" comes to mind.

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.

40 posted on 09/09/2002 2:00:38 PM PDT by SheLion
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