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The Washington Post has a good story this week detailing how more nonsmokers who live in apartments and condos are speaking up about secondhand smoke intruding into their living spaces. The article notes that while it used to be assumed that smokers have a right to smoke in their homes, more people are realizing that nonsmokers [...] Secondhand smoke costs the state of Indiana $1.3 billion – yes, billion with a “b” — per year, a new study shows. The study, by Indiana University’s School of Medicine, comes as the state considers enacting a smokefree workplace law. Clearly, it should. The numbers alone are staggering – the cost of secondhand smoke amounts to $201 [...] Herman Cain, the former pizza CEO now running for president in the Republican primary, worked closely with the tobacco industry and supported efforts to defeat smokefree workplace policies, Think Progress reports. Cain was a lobbyist for the National Restaurant Association, and in that capacity met frequently with tobacco industry lobbyists. He even signed up for a [...] On the bright side, the huge exemption to the smokefree workplaces law just got just smaller. The D.C. Council today approved a measure that would limit it to two events per year: Fight Night (a charity fundraiser) and the annual event held by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, to which Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) [...] A new study underscores the dangers of secondhand smoke to children. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society in the Republic of Ireland have found fewer cases of middle ear infection in American homes with less secondhand smoke. Said the lead author, Hillel Alpert, who is with [...] Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable death in the District of Columbia, a new report by the city’s Department of Health finds. According to the report, nearly half of all deaths in the District are preventable. Tobacco use is responsible for a third of preventable deaths and 16.6 percent of all deaths in D.C. Other causes [...] Yes, even tobacco states can go smokefree. North Carolina, which produces about half the country’s tobacco, according to The Washington Post, went smokefree on Jan. 2. That includes bars as well as restaurants, making it a stronger law than Virginia’s (that state allows smoking in separately ventilated areas). (Note that many localities in Kentucky, also [...] |
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