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Majority of Cincinnati Citizens Support a Workplace Smoking Ban

Separate surveys indicate that a majority of Cincinnatians would be willing to support a ban on smoking in the workplace, and a majority of bars and restaurant s returning surveys are either smoke - free or plan to go that direction ...
City Health Commissioner Malcolm Adcock called the survey a The smoking war may be heating up in Cincinnati ...

New Study: Smoke-free Cities Have Lower Indoor Air Pollution

Researchers at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo conducted air quality tests in 53 venues in seven major U ...
Of the seven cities studied, those that enforced a smoking ban _ New York City, Buffalo and Los Angeles _ had lower levels of indoor air pollution than cities that permitted smoking, including Washington, D ...
Cities with indoor smoking bans have dramatically lower indoor air pollution than cities that allow patrons to light up in bars and restaurant s, according to a study released Thursday ...
Last year, researchers in Montana reported that heart attacks in Helena had dropped sharply during the first two months its smoking ban was in effect ...
had the highest levels of indoor air pollution at 392 micrograms per cubic meter of air followed by Baltimore, Philadelphia and Hoboken ...

DC Judge Sets Back Smoking Ban Ballot Initiative

Even before yesterday's ruling, the initiative's prospects were dimming ...
Gooden Terrell called Initiative 66 "invalid" and "improper" and ordered the D ...
They argued that the initiative illegally infringed upon powers of local government officials to make decisions that affect city revenue ...
The ruling was a victory for restaurant owners, who resisted efforts to impose an outright ban on smoking and sued the election board in March to keep the initiative off the November ballot ...
The New York State Health Department and local health departments have since granted waivers to establishments that can prove they suffered financial hardship under the ban ...

Minneapolis Residents Favor Smoking Ban

Researchers at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo conducted air quality tests in 53 venues in seven major U ...
In Minnesota, Duluth, Moose Lake, Cloquet and Olmsted County have adopted similar bans; 39 cities have proposed them ...
Of the seven cities studied, those that enforced a smoking ban _ New York City, Buffalo and Los Angeles _ had lower levels of indoor air pollution than cities that permitted smoking, including Washington, D ...
The group's poll also shows that 84 percent of respondents said they think exposure to secondhand smoke is a serious or moderate health hazard and 80 percent think the right of customers and employees to breathe clean air outweighs the rights of smoke rs ...

Where to Get DC Tax Free Cigs? The Senate and House Office Buildings

Last year, researchers in Montana reported that heart attacks in Helena had dropped sharply during the first two months its smoking ban was in effect ...
Nearly three-fourths of Minneapolis residents polled recently said they favor a citywide smoking ban in most indoor public places, according to a survey released Wednesday ...
To get a place on the November ballot, anti-smoking activists needed to secure 18,000 signatures of registered voters by July 5 ...
Smoke rs in Washington usually cough up big bucks for cigarette taxes -- but that does not apply to one elite group on Capitol Hill ...

Arkansas State Smoking Restrictions to be Debated

New York City had the lowest concentration of indoor pollutants of all the cities at 25 micrograms per cubic meter of air ...
Gooden Terrell called Initiative 66 "invalid" and "improper" and ordered the D ...
Researchers at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo conducted air quality tests in 53 venues in seven major U ...

Brooke County Passes Smoking Ban

And if two state lawmakers who fought over the creation of the new law are any indication, disagreements about the desirability of the new smoking restriction law seem certain to continue ...
Twenty-five percent said they would oppose it; 3 percent were undecided ...
While smoking is already taboo in bars and restaurant s in Ohio County, the Brooke County Board of Health on Monday adopted its own regulation to govern tobacco use in restaurant s in that area ...
Nearly three-fourths of Minneapolis residents polled recently said they favor a citywide smoking ban in most indoor public places, according to a survey released Wednesday ...

Santa Rosa City Council Approves Smoking Ban

Pierce proposed the expansion of the city's smoking law after bus drivers complained about smoke wafting into buses at transit stations and witnessing non smoke rs constantly moving their chairs to escape drifting secondhand smoke outside restaurant s and bars ...
Paul city councils proposed smoking-ban ordinances earlier this month ...
New York City had the lowest concentration of indoor pollutants of all the cities at 25 micrograms per cubic meter of air ...
To get a place on the November ballot, anti-smoking activists needed to secure 18,000 signatures of registered voters by July 5 ...
On the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, executive branch buildings are permitted to sell cigarettes, though they are banned from vending machines, said April Kaufman, a spokesman for the General Services Administration, which oversees many ...

NH Lags Behind Smokefree Legislation Trend

City Health Commissioner Malcolm Adcock called the survey a The smoking war may be heating up in Cincinnati ...
The town nevertheless has kept the ordinance on its books, and all restaurant s and bars, except one, abide by it, said Robert Soucy, Colebrook's public health officer, who is also a family practitioner, but the ruling chokes the ability of communities to pass similar bans ...
They argued that the initiative illegally infringed upon powers of local government officials to make decisions that affect city revenue ...
It's about people with health issues being able to have a normal life ...

MSA Provides Greater Benefits to Industry Than To Public Health

And we must never forget that the Engle case wouldn't have gone to court had the AGs June 20, 1997 Global Bailout been enacted by Congress ...
For example, nothing in the MSA prohibits the National Smoke r's Alliance, chambers of commerce, manufacturers associations, restaurant associations, tobacco retailer groups, anti tax organizations and others who receive tobacco industry funding from continuing many of these same practices that the manufacturers are now prohibited from doing ...
The MSA's lobbying limitations on tobacco companies, corporate culture commitments, prohibitions on material misrepresentations, and many other clauses that purportedly protect public health, contain so many loopholes as to render them moot ...
Even before yesterday's ruling, the initiative's prospects were dimming ...
Gooden Terrell called Initiative 66 "invalid" and "improper" and ordered the D ...