Fight Shaping Up in Texas Over Proposed Indoor Smoking Ban

February 5, 2007

  • February 6, 2007 at 8:28 am
    Thomas Laprade says:
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    The antis started with no smoking on planes, then restarants, taverns,bars,beaches,parks your cars and eventually your homes.
    It is not about health and it never was about health.
    It is all about denormalizing smoking.
    Passing no-smoking legislation is a big step in that direction.
    My message to the compatible non-smokers.
    One of these days these antis will be after something that you might like.
    Get on the bandwagon and stop these fanatics now.
    http://smokersclubinc.com

  • February 6, 2007 at 11:22 am
    Thomas Laprade says:
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    If the public was honestly and truthfully informed about the effects of second-hand smoke, there would be fewer no-smoking laws in this country.
    A little smoke from a handful of crushed leaves and some paper that is mixed with the air of a decently ventilated venue is going to harm or kill you?

    There has never been a single study showing that exposure to the low levels of smoke found in bars and restaurants with decent modern ventilation and filtration systems kills or harms anyone.

    As to the annoyance of smoking, a compromise between smokers and non-smokers can be reached, through setting a quality standard and the use of modern ventilation technology.

    Air ventilation can easily create a comfortable environment that removes not just passive smoke, but also and especially the potentially serious contaminants that are independent from smoking.

    Thomas Laprade
    Thunder Bay, Ont.

  • February 6, 2007 at 3:21 am
    Kevin Mulvina says:
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    Consensus can be a funny thing if the only voices you will hear are those who agree with you.

    The entire scientific community has agreed smoking is the largest danger to human health we know. As with almost everything we hear from the World Health Organization lately;
    Fears they promote always seem to find their way of stuffing public funds into someone’s pockets.

    The fallacy resides in the numbers and the form in which they are delivered also a product of international consensus with a district smell of industrial profiteering in the air.

    What we hear is how smoking reduction strategies have reduced smoker prevalence from close to 60% of the population to now somewhere near 20% if we look at the real numbers the reality which destroys credibility is seen clearly.

    There were 50 million American smokers in 1950 and that number has been constant to this day although we have been successful in keeping the numbers in check the numbers reveal the larger picture. With a population growth tripling what it was we should expect to see a huge drop in the effects of smoking regardless of how long it takes for those diseases to develop Mirroring population growth.

    A stable cause should exhibit a stable effect of smoking related diseases proportional to population growth. With three times the population we should see one third the prevalence of disease what we did see was a growth of all smoking related diseases equal to the growth of the population proving absolutely the rise in smoking related diseases has nothing to do with smoking. The lowered prevalence numbers are a factor of growth and not of claimed anti smoker strategies Or the product of a deliberate fear mongering among the public.

    How many will die as a result of the medical and political communities barking up the wrong tree once again, for over 50 years? . In 1950 we saw, using the same 20% figure popular today 150,000 smoking related diseases which should be the same today allowing 300,000 mortalities annually ignored in the States and likely 30,000 in Canada by scale.

    Three times the population triples a lot of toxic elements in our lives. Smoking should be the least of our worries by comparison, second hand smoke even more so.
    Smoking is one of the few health risks which decreased significantly in that time frame.

    Conclusions;

    We are ignoring the cause of close to 90% of the mortalities claimed as caused by or related to smoking. We have expanded the nicotine addiction industry enormously with the addition of the new drug products. More abhorrently we are promoting hatred of an identifiable group in our community. If quitting smoking is a torturous event The perpetrator is now the state. If smokers are to quit they need our support not our ridicule.

    Surely more inclusive strategies could have been developed with a few less fanatical views at the table.
    The hypocrisy is clear; smokers were never allowed to participate, despite the effect denormalizing plans were to have on all of them.

    Perhaps A government agency dedicated to our health needs to take another look at the legitimate non political science involved and incorporate a protection of all in community and not strictly demands of the few who wish to tear our communities apart in service of their industrial masters.

  • February 6, 2007 at 4:18 am
    Trippy says:
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    Is CONTROL… & guess what, no matter how many laws get changed, no one will ever have complete CONTROL!

    Now for those non-smoking fanatics, please visit your State\’s industrial areas & take really deep breaths – choke on the thick pollution & ride that wagon on home too!

    Take a reality pill & get off the backs of the few smokers that are still puffing away these days, they are a dying breed, let them live until they die!

  • February 6, 2007 at 4:40 am
    Kevin says:
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    One benefit of all this nonsense; it becomes much easier for the electorate to separate the fools and followers from the leaders,
    according to those reciting hymn and verse of The health scare advocacy groups.

  • February 6, 2007 at 5:29 am
    Professional musician says:
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    Texas needs to keep these antis totally at bay on the state level. They are bad news for live music and nightlife in places where they push their antismoking agendas through. Plus when they get their hooks in , they then work on promoting all kinds of smoking ban add-ons and enable every kook through default who wants to get on a soapbox for everything from how long people should display their holiday lights to restaurant menu offerings.



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