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“That’s life.” So muttered the woman next to me at a community meeting convened last night in the Greenbelt Community Center last night to discuss the problem of intrusion of secondhand smoke from one apartment to another. The woman was not very sympathetic to the plight of nonsmokers. What an appalling comment. I wonder how she [...] Flickr photo courtesy of aperryproductions The case of the convoluted budget amendment just got messier. Mayor Vincent Gray has vetoed a measure that was supposed to narrow a huge exemption to the smokefree workplaces law — an exemption that the D.C. Council passed in June without public notice. (They claimed it was an accident.) However, because [...] Here’s another silver lining to the day’s events: ANC 3F, whose treasurer is by Bob Summersgill, a member of Smokefree DC’s board, passed a resolution tonight opposing the Council’s weakening of the smokefree law. Here is the text: Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3F Resolution opposing the Special Event Exemption for Cigar Smoking Whereas, the Surgeon General has determined* [...] Here’s what the D.C. Council didn’t do today: It didn’t entirely repeal the broad exemption to the smokefree workplaces law that it passed “inadvertently” last month. The language would have permitted 79 hotels to have one cigar-smoking event each year. But Fight Night, a charity fundraiser, will get to have cigar-smoking at its next event. The language [...] flickr photo courtesy of larding's photostream We have written previously about graduate student Noah Jacobs’ persistence in attempting to get American University to enforce its no-smoking areas around campus buildings. He has shot a video of scofflaws, collected cigarette butts and brought them to the president’s office, and sent letters to university officials. Smokefree DC, [...] flickr photo courtesy of mae.noelle By 2020, every state will have laws protecting nonsmokers in bars, restaurants and other workplaces, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts. That estimate is based on the rate at which states have been adopting smokefree workplaces laws. We went from zero to 25 between 2000 and 2010. The CDC estimates [...] smoker no. 85 by filtran, courtesy of flickr If they can do it in North Dakota, it can be done anywhere. North Dakota’s capital city is making bars smokefree. Voters this week approved a smokefree bar measure by 60 percent. What’s more, they rejected a proposal for outdoor smoking huts. The final tally: 5,273 voted to make [...] For the past year, Jacque Petterson has been collecting stories and links to news articles about smokefree housing – public housing complexes that have gone smokefree, lawsuits filed over secondhand smoke issues in multi-unit dwellings, even information about fires caused by cigarettes. Now she has put those in Smoke-Free Housing Magazine, an online publication that has [...] flickr photo by AbhijeetRane Secondhand smoke is a huge hazard for workers and patrons at casinos, a new study shows. A new study from researchers at Stanford and Tufts universities shows that being in a smoky casino for less than 2 hours an impair the heart’s ability to pump blood. The researchers studied pollutants in the [...] New York, which was one of the early leaders in the smokefree workplace movement, may be a trendsetter when it comes to smokefree housing. The Wall Street Journal reports that buildings are increasingly going smokefree. At least half a dozen Manhattan co-ops are expected to ask shareholders during annual meetings this spring to vote on an all-out [...] |
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