Smoking-ban details hazy as lawmakers struggle to hammer out co...

As key lawmakers haggle over what limits the state should place on public smoking, many local lawmakers say they want a tough ban, but some say they'd consider exempting some businesses or clubs to get ...

[SStahl]

"Smoking-ban details hazy"? These laws are nuts. They always turn legislature into a three-ring circus--and then lawsuits for exemptions, property rights and everything else follows. Here's a compromise:
We don't pass laws making smoke-free illegal and we don't pass laws making smoker-friendly illegal.

Then we clean-up scientific research to be free from both tobacco and pharma funding. Medical textbooks don't need to be written by drug companies anyway--and the money saved by PhRMA could help to lower prescription drugs prices to something more reasonable than they are today, too.

[generalsn1234567]

After four months, many small bars here in Chicago are ignoring the ban to keep their customers. Any fine that may be imposed are treated as another cost of doing business. The ban is a joke in many small bars.

[generalsn1234567]

They need to return to the day when drug companies were restricted from advertising prescription drugs to the public. they used to be limited to publications aimed at doctors. The Chantix side effects are showiing up more frequently, but can be ordered online without any warnings. THAT should be banned.

[Stephanie Steinberg]

DYING FROM SECONDHAND SMOKE:

A casino employee in Atlantic City just found out she has nodules on her lungs. Another casino employee in LV was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. A former casino employee in Nevada recently died from lung cancer. Another former casino employee had surgery to remove part of his lungs affected by cancer. All of these employees are/were non smokers.

All workplaces should be smoke free. No one deserves to breathe the poisons in secondhand smoke and face death. Breathing is not a choice.

[generalsn1234567]

Stephanie Steinberg wrote:

DYING FROM SECONDHAND SMOKE:
A casino employee in Atlantic City just found out she has nodules on her lungs. Another casino employee in LV was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. A former casino employee in Nevada recently died from lung cancer. Another former casino employee had surgery to remove part of his lungs affected by cancer. All of these employees are/were non smokers.
All workplaces should be smoke free. No one deserves to breathe the poisons in secondhand smoke and face death. Breathing is not a choice.

How many casinos do you visit to learn all the employees details?

[thecynic]

Stephanie Steinberg wrote:

DYING FROM SECONDHAND SMOKE:
A casino employee in Atlantic City just found out she has nodules on her lungs. Another casino employee in LV was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. A former casino employee in Nevada recently died from lung cancer. Another former casino employee had surgery to remove part of his lungs affected by cancer. All of these employees are/were non smokers.
All workplaces should be smoke free. No one deserves to breathe the poisons in secondhand smoke and face death. Breathing is not a choice.

How many pedestrians were killed by cars last year? Should we ban cars? Now your argument will be, people have to drive, but they don't have to smoke. We really don't HAVE to drive either.

[SStahl]

Stephanie Steinberg wrote:

DYING FROM SECONDHAND SMOKE:
A casino employee in Atlantic City just found out she has nodules on her lungs. Another casino employee in LV was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. A former casino employee in Nevada recently died from lung cancer. Another former casino employee had surgery to remove part of his lungs affected by cancer. All of these employees are/were non smokers.
All workplaces should be smoke free. No one deserves to breathe the poisons in secondhand smoke and face death. Breathing is not a choice.

All these nonsmokers getting so-called "smokers diseases"? If both nonsmokers and smokers have always been getting these diseases, then there really isn't much tobacco-correlation at all.

[SStahl]

generalsn1234567 wrote:

They need to return to the day when drug companies were restricted from advertising prescription drugs to the public. they used to be limited to publications aimed at doctors. The Chantix side effects are showiing up more frequently, but can be ordered online without any warnings. THAT should be banned.

AMEN!!!

Thank you general!:-)