Posted on 09/24/2002 3:38:19 PM PDT by SheLion
BOSTON (AP)--Smoking at work, including in bars and restaurants, would be banned in Boston under a proposal announced by the mayor Tuesday.
No worker should be forced to breathe the toxins in second-hand smoke, Mayor Thomas Menino said.
"It's a question of fairness," Menino told reporters. "The long-term health of the worker far outweighs any fleeting enjoyment smoking can give.
"You want to smoke? Go outside," he said.
Menino's request mirrors a law in California and pending legislation in New York City. Boston already requires restaurants to partition any smoking area or place it at least six feet from eating areas. The new regulations would effectively ban smoking everywhere in Boston but the outdoors and private homes or hotel rooms.
The Boston Public Health Commission has authority to pass health regulations, so a smoking ban doesn't need City Council approval, though public hearings will be held.
It's unknown how many workplaces still allow smoking in Boston and would be affected, said John Auerbach, the commission's executive director.
About 500 communities nationwide have total or partial public smoking bans, according to the Washington D.C.-based Action on Smoking and Health.
Anne Everly, a 34-year-old smoker, said there won't be any public places left where smokers can have a cigarette indoors, an important consideration during New England winters. She said smoking shouldn't be banned in bars.
"It seems like a reasonable enough compromise," she said.
Under the smoking ban which goes into effect in Delaware in November, even cigar stores will have to be smoke free.
There is a very upscale tobacconist at one of the beach resorts here who created a very comfortable reading room with magazines and chess tables. It's lovely and very popular with the upscale older crowd it attracts, most of whom are cigar and pipe smokers. There are ashtrays on every table and it's very bright with huge picture windows and the owner went a great deal of effort and expense to make it inviting and comfortable for his customers, all of whom truly appreciate it.
On November 27, it will be no more.
Sheer insanity!!
That is a rather mild way of describing the situation..........
They have already thought of that. Any place that has employees will be under the orders. That's how they have done it in most places.
In any case, if people don't stand up for their rights on principle, they can forget having rights and just settle for a game of cat and mouse with the armed thugs.
Then, they can refuse service to whoever they feel do not fit the clientele that they want to serve.
It won't work, and if it does, it won't for long. It's almost time.
And are willing to use guns to usurp the property rights of other citizens for your own desires.
You aren't for inalienable rights. You aren't even a Republican I'll bet. And I'm not in love with Republicans.
Another wannabe stealth liberal pretending to be a Republican to make them look even worse than they are. Your "right wing zealot" remark gave you away. Go back to DU please.
Federal Court Rules Against EPA on Second Hand Smoke
Also, the ORNL Labs, belonging to the Government, put forth their research on second hand smoke. I think any health coalition 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?"
I'd like to see what the anti would say in response to that question.
"Exposures to second-hand smoke lower than believed, ORNL study finds"
and:
Congressional Research Service report on Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer, Nov. 1995
Especially note page 55, first line, "Finally, it is possible that very few or even no deaths can be attributed to ETS." And page 62, -second paragraph:
"Therefore, had OSHA performed a meta-analysis, it seems likely that it would have found no increased lung cancer risk from occupational ETS exposure."
And "they" think we are so stupid out here. Just burns me up that they are getting away with this.
Bar and restaurant owners think it won't happen to them. Then, when they find out that it CAN happen to them, it's too late.
So many restaurants have been hurt bad by smoking bans. Check out:
Unfortunately, we have RINO’S at work as well. They have been easily swayed…….and are going along with the anti’s.
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