Gimmy

No smoking in bars, is the government on crack

KRL

How anyone can put the poisons that are in cigarettes through their body is beyond me.

The cigarette companies get away with it because its not til you reach your 40's that you'll start to feel and see the effects of what they've done to you and by then its too late to do anything about it inside your lungs.

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quit cigs smoke dope

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I love it-smokers hurt the health of non smokers

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i'm a smoker and i dont mind heading outside for a ciggie...its always good to get some fresh air plus it keeps me from smoking to much

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Addiction is a ruthless bitch.

IntenseCash

Very true... I like the idea... they are putting in on the ballet for Denver, CO in Nov.

I do think it violates rights though too... but for the non-smokers its great!

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ok, i understand that it is necessary for the bars, but why the hell they made it illegal to smoke at the restraunts. They all have
non-smoking section, how could a smoker could be annoying to a person eating at the non-smoking section. It's plain bullshit.

lil2rich4u2

you guys have lost your mind!!!

Yes i smoke, and yes it pisses me off.... but even if i didnt smoke, do i want govt putting rules and laws on every bit of our lifestyle?!?

Ohhhh it kills you right??? Do you know you have a better chance of contracting HIV from gay sex then getting lung cancer from cigs??

Are they banning gay sex next???

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yes being forced to go outside also makes you smoke less.

dav555add

Put the damned cigarettes pack at $10, if you want to die of lung cancer, it's your prerogative, but don't poison me in the process. If it wasn't for the money spent on health care due to smoking and drinking, we could have free healthcare in this country. If it's too much to go out of the bar to smoke one, then stick your pack of cigarettes in your ass

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hey listen here Mr. Sheep that likes to follow the herd ...

smoking & drinking have been related since the dawn of time ... why not look at it as if you dont like the smoke, get the fuck out of the bar and go in the non-smoking section?!

Do you have any idea whatsoever how many customers alot of these bar owners will lose because of this move??

And do you really beleive that under any circumstance we would ever in a million years have free healthcare?!?


How about all the tax given to the govt by the cig companies?! That doesnt help one bit, right??


How about if you dont like the smell of smoke, dont walk into a smoking lounge?!? DUH??!!

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If smoking is so dangerous why did they settle on the lawsuit agains the tobacco companies??

FUCKING MONEY HUNGRY SELL OUTS!!!

dav555add

Fuck You and have a good life

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Big_Ray

They should make pot legal so you all could chill out.

lil2rich4u2

Nice response you came up with!

About a year ago i got into a bar fight with a dipshit at Fridays near my house ...

me and girl were sitting at bar, he said to her "mind blowing smoke other way please? my chicken tastes like fucking nicotine!"


Well, thats all i had to hear ... red blinders went on and the night suddenly became very very long!

The manager actually took my side when the cops came, he said i was right that the guy should not have been sitting at a public smoking bar if he didnt like smoke ... there was an enormous section for non-smokers!

Fuck him, fuck the govt. and fuck you!


I will be the one standing outside of the bar blowing smoke on you fags while you walk out

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Good idea... looks like a touchy subject here

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dav555add

Fuck Off and go to hell.
Last time a guy blew smoke in my face in the bar, I shoved his fucking face in the urinal. You're just lucky it wasn't me.
When you've got lung cancer and an emphysema, don't go crying or start suing cigarettes companies. DIE LIKE A MAN

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Move to Quebec. You can smoke anywhere here
And to top it all off you can buy beer at the depanneur and grocery store.

aztecvision

But then people would be running over little girls in the drive thru.. LOL

There isn't any money in it for them. Once it's legalized, everyone would be able to grow their own crops. Unlike tobacco and alcohol.

Every marijuana drug busts is bling bling in their pocket...

Lykos

Stuped LOW!I am happy i don't live in USA
Keep smoking

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Ohh sure, now your a tough guy Mr. Sheep?!?!

I wish it was you! Then you would be the crying dickhead on the floor next to the bar as im kicking you in the face and dumping ashtrays on you while im screaming "how does your fucking chicken taste now you cocksucker?!?"


Its assholes like you that cant just live life, need to make life unhappy for others!

If i want to smoke, why the fuck should you care?!? What the fuck business is it of yours?!

In most of the situations, non-smokers have MORE than 85% of the resteraunt area, and us smokers are stuffed in a little shack of a room .... but thats just not fucking good enough is it?!

Resteraunts i can understand. Kids, families, whatever ... but fucking bars?! Are you for real?!?

Thats like saying your going to take the "white" off of "rice" !!!!!!

drinking and smoking go together .... the govt. just has osme bug up they asses for some of the big companies ... they prolly didnt get their hands greased good enough one year and thats that.

But dont even act like the govt. gives 2 flipping fruity fucks about your little whiney ass!

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How's the weather there?

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My igloo's almost all gone.... ;)

theking

Obeisty is moving into place as the number one health risk so you soon can say that if it were not for fat people "we could have free healthcare in this country". So what is the next government action you seek...a limit on the portions of food served in restaurants?

On a side note I personally know a person that worked in a restaruant most of his adult life. He scrimped and saved with the goal of owning his own restaurant. He achieved this goal and about a year later the state of California passed a no smoking law in restaurants. He was a smoker and it was now illegal for him to smoke in his own restaurant that he had saved for over so many years. He was enraged...and sad at the same time. He sold the restaurant and went into the landscaping business saying they could not ban him from smoking in the outdoors. This is not entirely true as some towns have banned smoking anywhere other than inside your own home.

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SHUT THE FUCK UP AND TAKE A WALK IN THE MOUNTAIN TO SMELL THE FRESH AIR....

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lil2rich4u2

Dont speak so soon!

Its little baby bitches like you that will convince the govt. that me smoking in the woods is killing off bears or some shit!

How about you go walk in the woods and ill sit in the bar smoking?

Id be curious to see a vote from a few bars. How many people at any given time are excited to see this transaction, and how many would spit on your hair peice just for mentioning it!

Looks like ill be hangin in some biker bars, i bet $50 they wont stop smoking, law or no law

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No smoking in bars in California has been the law for quite some time.

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Fucken bikers; they pollute our air with their damn exhaust

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lil2rich4u2

oh here we go

little baby bitch is at it again!

I bet you got your little ripped up ass kicked every day in school, huh?


Your just the type i would .... bah nevermind, lemme go light a butt

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Should be up to the bar owner to decide if he wants his place to be smoking or non-smoking. Non-smokers can find another bar if they want.

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Carrie

Exactly.

And as for California having this law for quite some time... California is run by fucking idiots who can't even regulate their own power and who crumble under any lobby group rather than standing up and saying "take responsibility for yourself - we've got enough work to do and enough laws to enforce".
If you want the gov't to completely run and ruin your life, move to California. They'll be happy to make all of your choices FOR you.

KRL

Where'd you get that statistic???

No way jose. Cigs will fuck your bod up bad, bad, bad.

What's in a Cigarette?
by K. H. Ginzel, M.D.
For those who still don't know ? let me emphatically state that cigarette smoking is a true addiction, more powerful than a dependence on alcohol, heroin or cocaine. To grasp this well-documented fact, one really doesn't have to study all the supporting scientific evidence. One simply needs to consider that no other drug is self-administered with the persistence, regularity and frequency of a cigarette. At an average rate of ten puffs per cigarette, a one to three pack-a-day smoker inhales 70,000 to 200,000 individual doses of mainstream smoke during a single year. Ever since its large scale industrial production early in this century, the popularity of the modern cigarette has been spreading like wildfire. Here is the first, and perhaps the most significant answer to the title question: Addiction is in a cigarette.

Probing into what makes a cigarette so irresistible, we find that much of the recent research corroborates earlier claims: It is for the nicotine in tobacco that the smoker smokes, the chewer chews, and the dipper dips. Hence, nicotine is in a cigarette.

In contrast to other drugs, nicotine delivery from tobacco carries an ominous burden of chemical poisons and cancer-producing substances that boggle the mind. Many toxic agents are in a cigarette. However, additional toxicants are manufactured during the smoking process by the chemical reactions occurring in the glowing tip of the cigarette. The number is staggering: more than 4,000 hazardous compounds are present in the smoke that smokers draw into their lungs and which escapes into the environment between puffs.

The burning of tobacco generates more than 150 billion tar particles per cubic inch, constituting the visible portion of cigarette smoke. According to chemists at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, cigarette smoke is 10,000 times more concentrated than the automobile pollution at rush hour on a freeway. The lungs of smokers, puffing a daily ration of 20 to 60 low to high tar cigarettes, collect an annual deposit of one-quarter to one and one-half pounds of the gooey black material, amounting to a total of 15 to 90 million pounds of carcinogen-packed tar for the aggregate of current American smokers. Hence, tar is in a cigarette.

But visible smoke contributes only 5-8% to the total output of a cigarette. The remaining bulk that cannot be seen makes up the so-called vapor or gas phase of cigarette "smoke." It contains, besides nitrogen and oxygen, a bewildering assortment of toxic gases, such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, acrolein, hydrogen cyanide, and nitrogen oxides, to name just a few. Smokers efficiently extract almost 90% of the particulate as well as gaseous constituents (about 50% in the case of carbon monoxide) from the mainstream smoke of the 600 billion cigarettes consumed annually in the U.S. In addition, 2.25 million metric tons of sidestream smoke chemicals pollute the enclosed air spaces of homes, offices, conference rooms, bars, restaurants, and automobiles in this country. Hence, pollution is in a cigarette.

The witch's brew of poisons invades the organs and tissues of smokers and nonsmokers, adults and children, born as well as unborn, and causes cancer, emphysema, heart disease, fetal growth retardation and other problems during pregnancy. The harm inflicted by all other addictions combined pales in comparison. Smoking-related illness, for example, claims in a few days as many victims as cocaine does in a whole year. Hence, disease is in a cigarette.

The irony is that many of the poisons found in cigarette smoke are subject to strict regulation by federal laws which, on the other hand, specifically exempt tobacco products. "Acceptable Daily Intake," ADI, is the amount of a chemical an individual can be exposed to for an extended period without apparent detriment to health. A comparison of the actual intake of selected chemicals in mainstream smoke with their ADIs (see table) reveals the enormity of toxic exposure incurred by the smoker (note the presence of methyl isocyanide, the toxicant of the Bhopal disaster).

In addition, there is the chemical burden from sidestream smoke, afflicting smokers and non-smokers alike. Based on the reported concentrations in enclosed, cigarette smoke-polluted areas, the estimated intakes of nicotine, acrolein, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde peak at 200, 130, 75, 7, and 3 times the ADI, respectively. The high exposure to acrolein is especially unsettling. This compound is not only a potent respiratory irritant, but qualifies, according to current studies, as a carcinogen.

Regulatory policy aims at restricting exposure to carcinogens to a level where the lifetime risk of cancer would not exceed 1 in 100,000 to 1,000,000. Due to a limited database, approximate upper lifetime risk values could be calculated for only 7 representative cigarette smoke carcinogens. The risk values were extraordinarily high, ranging from 1 in 6,000 to 1 in 16. Because of the awesome amount of carcinogens found in cigarette smoke and the fact that carcinogens combine their individual actions in an additive or even multiplicative fashion, it is not surprising that the actual risk for lung cancer is as high as one in ten. Hence, cancer is in a cigarette.

Among the worst offenders are the nitrosamines. Strictly regulated by federal agencies, their concentrations in beer, bacon, and baby bottle nipples must not exceed 5 to 10 parts per billion. A typical person ingests about one microgram a day, while the smokers' intake tops this by 17 times for each pack of cigarette smoked. In 1976, a rocket fuel manufacturer in the Baltimore area was emitting dimethylnitrosamine into the surrounding air, exposing the local inhabitants to an estimated 14 micrograms of the carcinogen per day. The plant was promptly shut down. However eagerly the government tries to protect us from outdoor pollution and the carcinogenic risk of consumer products, it blatantly suspends control if the offending chemical is in, or comes from, a cigarette. Hence, hypocrisy is in a cigarette.

But there is still more in a cigarette than addiction, poison, pollution, disease, and hypocrisy. A half century of aggressive promotion and sophisticated advertising that featured alluring role models from theater, film and sport, has invested the cigarette with an enticing imagery. Imagery which captivates and seduces a growing youngster. The youngster, indispensable for being recruited into the future army of smokers, does not start to smoke cigarettes for the nicotine, but for the false promises they hold. Hence, deceit is in a cigarette.

In summary, no drug ever ingested by humans can rival the long-term debilitating effects of tobacco; the carnage perpetuated by its purveyors; the merciless irreversibility of destiny once the victim contracts lung cancer or emphysema; the militant denial on the part of those who, with the support of stockholders and the sanction of governments, legally push their lethal merchandise across borders and continents killing every year two and one-half to three million people worldwide. All things added together: death is in a cigarette.

K. H. Ginzel, M.D., is Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Arkansas. His work is concentrated in the area of nicotine and its effects.

Table: Smokers' Daily Intake of Selected Mainstream Smoke Poisons

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Chemical Substance Range* in Multiples of
the Acceptable Daily Intake

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Nicotine 400-3,600
Acrolein 50-370
Carbon monoxide 50-250
Methyl isocyanide 6-60
Formaldehyde** 9-40
Hydrogen cyanide 8-30
Acrylamide** 7-20
Cadmium** 3-9
Ammonia 1-5

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Lung cancer is not reversible, unfortunately most lung cancer victims will be dead within 6 to 9 months; One out of 5 will survive one year, and 9 out of 10 will be dead within 5 years. ALL END UP WITH LUNG DISABILITY.

There are 30 chemicals in tobacco that cause cancer.

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Smoking and its Poisons

Dr Allan Britton MBA LLB (Hons)

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Health risks related to exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) are well established. The revised WHO Air quality guidelines for Europe conclude: ?ETS has been found to be carcinogenic in humans and to produce a substantial amount of morbidity and mortality from other serious health effects.... Acute and chronic respiratory health effects on children have been demonstrated in homes with smokers ... and even in homes with occasional smoking ? there is no evidence for a safe exposure level.? The WHO International Consultation on Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Child Health (Geneva, 11?14 January 1999) called for ?swift action to highlight the need for strong public policies to protect children from exposure to tobacco smoke?.


Tobacco what is it, where does it come from, how does it grow, and who grows it, at what cost

The species Nicotiana tabacum is widely cultivated in warm, dry climates for use in both cigars and cigarettes. The leaves are dried, and matured in storage for two to three years before use. Introduced to Europe as a medicine in the 16th century, tobacco has been recognised from the early 1950s as one of the world?s major health hazards. The leaves also yield nicotine, colourless oil, which has been shown to be one of the most powerful poisons known, and addictive in humans, and is used in insecticides.

Plantations are found away from cities, which are usually large plots of fertile land staffed by qualified farmers, who are responsible for producing superior tobacco destined to become the world?s finest premium cigars.

Once planted it takes tobacco 45-60 days to reach maturity. From 30-40 days onward, leaves are systematically removed from the plants. The plants are not allowed to flower, this extends the useful growing period to 4-5 months, and harvesting takes place from January through to the end of March. During the harvesting period leaves are picked two at a time, from here the leaves go on to be processed and made into cigars or cigarettes.

What are the Facts? The 1992 Surgeon General's Report estimates that the total lifetime excess medical care costs for smokers exceed those for non-smokers by $501 billion (£400 billion)

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds including 43 different carcinogenic substances.

Each year about 3,000 non-smoking adults die of lung cancer as a result of breathing the smoke of other's cigarettes. A non-smoker married to a smoker has a 30% greater risk of developing lung cancer than the spouse of a non-smoker.

The total smoking-attributable costs for Texans age 35 or older is $4,135,322,468.

Eighty-five percent of adolescent smokers who buy their own cigarettes usually buy Marlboro, Newport or Camel cigarettes, the most heavily marketed brands.

Maternal smoking is responsible for 35% of all SIDS deaths in the U. S. Smoking during pregnancy triple the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).

Fires from cigarettes cause 25,000 deaths each year in the U. S. and in the UK

In 1999, 65% of all secondary students reported having used some type of tobacco product during their lifetime.

Nicotine taken in by cigarette smoking takes only seconds to reach the brain but has a direct effect on the body for up to 30 minutes.

Smoking causes Eighty percent of lung cancer.

One in 5 deaths in the U.S results from the use of tobacco.

Each year, smoking claims 400,000 lives in the U.S.

Forty-eight million (24.7%) of adult?s aged 18 and older currently smokes in the U.S. (27.6% of men and 22.1% of women).

There was a 16% increase in smoking among high school seniors between 1996 and 1999.

Other information on tobacco can be found at FAQ's About Tobacco from the Texas Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse.

Sources: "Annual Cost of Cigarette Smoking in Texas," Texas Department of Health and M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre, 1993; "Cancer Facts and Figures," American Cancer Society, 1994; "Trends in Tobacco Use Among Youths," "Effect of Maternal Cigarette Smoking on Pregnancy: Complications and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome," DeFranza and Lew, Journal of Family Practice, 1995; "Tobacco if You Use . . . You Lose," Texas Department of Health, 1989; "NIDA Capsules: Cigarette Smoking," National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1993; "Health Problems Attributed to Use of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs," National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, 1993; Do It Now Foundation, 1996; American Cancer Society, 2/99; NIDA, 1999 Monitoring the Future Study, Secondary School Students; DoItNow Foundation.

Smoking is proving to be one of the world?s biggest killers and the most costly for health services. The costs are mounting up day by day and it is getting to the point where the costs are so high countries are close to bankruptcy. In the USA for instance smoking is responsible for something in the region of 40 to 50 per cent of all SSA (Social Security) disability cases, which adds up to a cost of approximately $2.5 billion per year. It is also estimated that private medical care insurance pays out in the region of $90 billion per year. So it can be seen that not only does smoking have a life threatening effect on the population it also poses a threat to the economic well being of each country.

But given the above what do the public really know about cigarettes for example what they are made of and what they produce. Each cigarette produces over 4000 different chemicals; some of which are known to attack the central nervous systems others are known to be carcinogens.

Each year, smoking around children is responsible for:

15,000 children hospitalised
26,000 new cases of asthma
150,000 - 300,000 lung infections, such as bronchitis and pneumonia, in children less than 18 months old
Over 40% of SIDS is due to mothers smoking during and/or after pregnancy or another person smoking in the house

A few of the dangerous chemicals in tobacco smoke that can affect you and your children


Chemical Description

4-aminobiphenyl.... Promotes liver/bladder cancer
Ethyl 2-furoate... A liver poison, considered for use as a chemical warfare agent
Hydrogen Cyanide. A poison used in gas chambers, responsible for paralysing and killing the cilia in lung airways
Arsenic.................... A poison used to kill rats
Formaldehyde.......... Used to preserve dead bodies
Carbon Monoxide... Replaces the oxygen in red blood cells can mimic anaemia
Ammonia................. An irritant and poison used to help vaporize nicotine so it can be easily inhaled
Nickel....................? An organ specific carcinogen
Naphythlamine?A bladder carcinogen
Toluidine................. A bladder carcinogen
Benzo (a) pyrene... A cancer promoter
Acetylene................ Used for fuel in welding torches
Cadmium................. Used in rechargeable batteries
Benzene................... Used as an industrial solvent
Now think about it, if tobacco contains even half of the above poisons, what are smokers doing to themselves let alone their children. Some of the illnesses children can catch are detailed below,

Ear Infections, The toxic chemicals in smoke irritate the lining of the Eustachian tube, which leads from the back of the nose to the ear. The irritated lining creates mucous which collects behind the eardrum. The ear may become infected and cause pain or hearing loss.

Pneumonia, Children have small airways; when an airway is irritated by smoke, mucous is produced. Sometimes one drop of mucous can close a child's airway and cause it to become infected.

Asthma, Irritants in tobacco smoke can cause the lining of the airways to swell making it difficult for a child to breathe. Tobacco smoke or even the stale odour of old smoke in a car can trigger an asthma attack in a child.

Problems after birth, Mothers who smoke during and after pregnancy may have children who are more likely to suffer behavioural problems such as hyperactivity. In one study, children from similar backgrounds who had parents that smoked scored 6% lower on tests than children whose parents did not smoke.

Birth defects, some studies suggest that smoking during pregnancy can cause birth defects such as cleft (split) lip or cleft palate (an opening between the nose and the roof of the mouth). Smoking is also responsible for low birth weight babies, miscarriages, and SIDS. Low birth weight babies.

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What is passive smoking? Non-smokers cannot avoid inhaling smoke when sharing the same room as smokers. This is 'passive smoking'.

The smoke is mainly 'side stream' smoke from the burning tip of cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco. Smokers also exhale some 'mainstream' smoke. Both mainstream and side stream smoke contain globules of tar together with nicotine and a wide range of vapours and gases such as carbon monoxide, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, and acrolein. Some of these substances have been shown in laboratory tests to induce cancer in animals.

What are the risks of passive smoking?



It has been shown that smoking is the single most important cause of disease and premature death. Many independent scientific bodies worldwide have also shown that passive smoking can cause lung cancer in non-smokers. In 1988, an advisory body to the UK Government, the Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health, reviewed all the available scientific evidence and concluded that it was consistent with passive smoking causing a small increase in the risk of lung cancer. The Committee estimated that passive smoking might be causing several hundred-lung cancer deaths a year in the United Kingdom.


What is the legal situation? Under section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, employers have to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all their employees. This means that if a risk to health can be demonstrated, for example if a worker with a respiratory condition is forced to work in a smoky atmosphere which may make that condition worse, the employer must take action to deal with this risk. Health and safety inspectors can take enforcement action if necessary in these circumstances, but ultimately it would be for the courts to decide, whether a risk to health was significant.

Employers also have a common law responsibility to provide a safe place and system of work. They need to resolve complaints from employees in order to ensure that their health is not at risk from a smoky environment.

Good ventilation will reduce the effects of tobacco smoke, but will not completely prevent exposure. In buildings with mechanical ventilation, employers should consider discharging air from smoking areas separately rather than allowing it to enter the recirculating system. If this is not reasonably practicable, the recirculated air should be brought up to an appropriate standard by suitable decontamination systems. Tobacco smoke building up in the workplace is a sure sign that the ventilation system is inadequate.

The main question people, that is non smokers should be asking which has been mentioned already in many quarters and has raised the temperature of the debate, is why should these people continue to be paid benefits from taxes when the disability is self inflicted. Smokers will argue that it is addictive and they cannot give up, it may be, however some people and I know of one in particular, have given up when a smoking related disease has been diagnosed and I?m sure there are many more but for the ones who don?t even try why then should we as tax payers continue to pay for their medical expenses and other benefits.

Money saved on not paying out benefits to people with smoking related diseases who do not following treatment, could then be redirected into the social security budgets for payment to the unemployed and the genuine disabled. And I?m sure that most politicians would agree that these are the people who need financial help. Or as Mr Milburn has stated cancer treatment is going to the top of the list for treatment, why when most people chose to smoke. Why do the rest of us have to pay

According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 419,000 people die in the United States from tobacco use every year. Teenagers make up the largest percentage of new cigarette smokers and studies show that tobacco is one of the most common "gateway drugs" there is. Obviously, the problem of tobacco use among today?s youth must be addressed.

For many years the debate over whether or not cigarettes cause cancer has angered many people, and been unresolved. Meanwhile, smokers continue to drop like flies, and increasingly it's becoming clear that children are also being made ill and placed at risk for cancer and neurological disease. The point is that both the cigarette industry and the scientific community have known for at least three generations that these chemical contaminants are in cigarettes and that they are carcinogenic and potential killers. Both the UK and U.S. governments have placed a warning on all cigarette packages. The various national health organizations have concluded that cigarette smoking is indeed dangerous and have expended many millions in research into the mechanisms behind cancer, heart disease, neurological damage, etc. Millions of people have stopped smoking cigarettes, and millions more have switched to "Low Tar & Nicotine" brands in the mistaken notion that these were less dangerous. Despite these warnings people still persist in killing themselves and others by smoking.

Dr Allan Britton

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