Straight Talk About Smoke-Free Workplace Laws
This six-minute video examines the benefits of smoke-free policies to businesses. It features restaurant and bar owners, employees and industry representatives talking about how these policies are good for health and for business. The video was produced jointly by Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke (KIISS), American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation (ANR Foundation) and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
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December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
So the government, …
So the government, and all the liberals, need to stay out of peoples personals lives. Now they want to ban it in outdoor public places as well. Well if your bothered by outdoor smoke, the we need to ban cars, buses, trucks, Barbecues, fireplaces, leaf burning, and fire works. Have I covered everything? I got a better idea. Why don’t you people move to an oxygen country, were everything is run on oxygen.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
You people a so …
You people a so brain washed. Is there really proof that it really causes health problems? Even before they passed these laws, I have always been a considerate smoker. I rode in peoples cars, and been in peoples houses that didn’t smoke and they asked me not to. I have friends that don’t smoke but keep ashtrays in the house for there guest that do, but still I’ll go outside. But even if I’m someplace were its allowed such as a casino, I see old people with oxygen tanks, and I stay away from them
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Why should we go …
Why should we go outside! You stay home in your little bubble and keep breathing fresh oxigen then you might choke on a air bubble! Smokers been around for decades… Lived long lives and enjoyed themselves till some ignorant idiot L.Y. started bitching!
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
And in the news …
And in the news today?
“Tobacco Free Kids has argued that the bill will help protect America’s youth from cigarettes. It has been joined in its assertions by America’s largest manufacturer of cigarettes, which has spent millions of dollars lobbying on behalf of the tobacco bill.
Professor Radu, however, had a different perspective, arguing:
“I am convinced that these anti-tobacco extremists will eventually be held partially responsible for the deaths of millions of uninformed smokers.”"
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I agree. That’s why …
I agree. That’s why we want special “smoker’s bars” where we will leave you alone. Fait enough.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I apologize for the …
I apologize for the reversal of my two comments (which really make up one). They were supposed to appear in order. Just read the bottommost one first.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
(Continued from …
(Continued from above)
Conclusion:
People have rights and liberties, but these rights end when they violate the rights of others. I think everyone’s heard the trite analogy about yelling fire in a theater. The same thing applies with secondhand smoke. Nonsmokers shouldn’t have to pay for smokers’ mistakes. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once said, “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Okay, here’s my …
Okay, here’s my stance on the issues of nonsmokers’ rights:
-Nonsmokers did not choose to smoke. Most of them (including myself) because they know it’s detrimental to their health.
-Smokers have a right to smoke, and you cannot legislate morality against them.
-Nonsmokers have a right to be free of secondhand smoke. As this video said, it is not only annoying, it is dangerous.
-Smokers’ rights end where nonsmokers’ rights begin.
(Continued)
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Thank …
Thank spaghetti-monster that Michigan hasn’t given in to these tool politicians.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Hawaii;
Smoking …
Hawaii;
Smoking rate REMAINS at 17% a year later.
Death rate holds constant
Tourism is down
Japanese tourism hits a twenty year low
The surgeon general’s report is a biased and unscientific political tool. It says business will not be hurt. What a lie, see below. Way does the surgeon general talk about business if it was a purely scientific and not a political social engineering tool.
Other places HAVE given hardship exempts. They PROVED the hardship to their health departments.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
From Above gross …
From Above gross liquor sales from late night bars;
2003 = $34.1 million
2004 = $34.8 million
2005 = $35.1 million
2006 = $36.4 million
2007 = $29.27 million post ban
Number of stand-lone bars
2003 = 366
2004 = 357
2005 = 359
2006 = 349 ( ban in November )
2007 = 329 ! A RECORD DECLINE! That’s with 1/4 of bars still allowing smoking to survive!
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
civil liberties? …
civil liberties? well what about the civil liberties of those non – smokers who choose to not smoke and breathe in those harmful chemicals. Non smokers have the right to breathe. They shouldnt have to cough up a lung while eating dinner or smell like an ash trey after a meal. Im not saying smokers should not be able to smoke AT ALL, but the least they could do is take the few extra steps outside if they need to smoke while at a restaurant or bar.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
And improving …
And improving business is bullshit! It stays the same just screws up the sections when your serving, its not gaining people at all. Its a crock, just tons of people outside smoking.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Im a smoker, and Im …
Im a smoker, and Im a bartender/ server. Its all good, but the fact that now we have to smoke in our cars, which barely happens. It sucks. What about all the air pollution and out there? gimme a break. Smoke free buildings are fine, but bars too? especially hole in the walls.. but theres alot more in this country to about.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
i am totally using …
i am totally using this for a project. thanks.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Amen with cavork! …
Amen with cavork! Though I’m a nonsmoker, I think its appalling the rate that smoking bans are passing throughout the country(and world).
I may be a nonsmoker, but if anti-smokers and/or local or state governments are that serious about the dangers of smoking, why just stop at banning smoking at indoor places? Either the government should ban the sale ALTOGETHER of tobacco(a la the country of Bhutan), or stay out of trying to force all businesses to ban smoking once and for all. *sighs*
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I can’t disagree …
I can’t disagree with you and I don’t want to. The point that I’m making is protect our personal liberties. I always hear the term “drugs and alcohol” used as if they are two different things when they are not. Alcohol (Ethanol) is a psychoactive drug just like coffee, cocaine or cannabis. I don’t drink or smoke but the reoccuring theme for the last thirty years is that if you drink you’re on morally and legally higher ground and that junkies are the first to enfringe on other junkies rights.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
you’re still …
you’re still missing my point, that smoking itself is killing non-smokers. the annoyance you get from the stench of puke and alcohol can be handled and isn’t killing you. stop the drinkers from driving, don’t stop the non-drivers from drinking. i don’t do harm to anyone by having a few beers or shots or whatever, but the guy next to me smoking away is actively killing himself and everyone around him. and now i’m done ranting, my case is clear.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
OK, you can abstain …
OK, you can abstain. You’re not in middle school. You’ve been taught how to avoid peer pressure. And aside from that, alcohol itself doesn’t kill anyone who doesn’t drink it. it’s irresponsible people who break the established laws and drive drunk who kill them. My friends and I don’t ever get behind the steering wheel after drinking. So you’re missing the point; established laws regarding DUIs and decency need to be ENFORCED, new ones shouldn’t be created to take away from my responsible fun
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Seriously? …
Seriously? non-drinkers have the right not to go to a bar, which is the only place that might happen (at least here where there are open container laws to keep alcohol indoors, or at least on private property). And then aside from that, there are decency laws meant to prevent anything else you mention on this one, just speak up and have them enforced.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
If I go to an event …
If I go to an event where there will be smoking or drinking I don’t or I don’t go, it’s that simple. Personal liberties for everyone or none for everyone. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy and zealots who need their war on “pick a topic, or group” in this country.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
the staff …
the staff babysitting drunks, being forced to drink to fit in at company functions because pickling you liver and killing brain cells is socially acceptable and encouraged, the millions of taxpayers’ dollars spent on dwi or dui offenses…. or the best part having them crash into your family and maiming or killing them. Alcohol kills more people per year then crack, cocaine, and herion combined but let’s keep this country free and take away everyone’s right but alcoholics.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
What about the non …
What about the non drinker’s rights? We love trying to avoid the minefields of alcohol containers in the parking lot, stinking like hobo after a drunk spills their drink on you, rude lushes constantly bumping into us on their way to and from the bar/bathroom, the stench of vomit/piss from the drunks who couldn’t/wouldn’t make it to the bathroom or missed, the angry drunks who feel it’s their right to be disruptive or intimidating,
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
You’ll never take …
You’ll never take my beer away from me. What moral or legal ground do you even have for imfringing on my liberties and rights to do with my own body what i want? the smoking ban is for the benefit of the non-smoking patrons, not for the benefit of the smokers, who can (and many times should just) go kill themselves in their own privacy. don’t be a neo-fascist. keep this country free, protect our personal liberties.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I think there …
I think there should be a FAT free work place. Im for a health tax for junk food and a $30 tax added to a six pack of beer. It’s going to happen.