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Foes to target smoking loopholes
The intent is to protect workers in some restaurants and bars from the health effects of secondhand smoke.
 
By SUSAN SIMPSON NewsOK.com
Published: 10/30/2009  2:24 AM
Last Modified: 10/30/2009  4:56 AM

OKLAHOMA CITY — Anti-smoking proponents say they will try again to pass legislation that closes loopholes in state law that allow smoking in some bars and restaurants.

The intent is to protect workers from the health effects of secondhand smoke, representatives of the American Heart Association and the state Health Department said. On Thursday, they said they would seek legislation similar to a bill that died in the Oklahoma House this year.

The bill would remove exemptions to anti-smoking legislation approved in 2003. The exemptions allow smoking in stand-alone bars and in separately-ventilated smoking rooms in restaurants.

Marilyn Davidson of the American Heart Association said secondhand smoke leads to disease that kills 38,000 people a year and increases the risk of coronary heart disease by 25 percent to 30 percent. A recent report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies said studies have shown a decrease in the rate of heart attacks after a smoking ban was implemented.
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By SUSAN SIMPSON NewsOK.com

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Few Clothes, America (10/30/2009 10:24:47 AM)
Sarge776 and Tuffyok. You are obviously lungers who enjoy your smokes. Sarge, you use the same old bull slit with the fat people, perfume, haircuts, etc. It's the same old story each time someone wants to suggest making changes that don't suit your beliefs.

Best of luck with your lung cancer, COPD, and other things that are going to shorten your life and cost your loves ones money.
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Few Clothes, America (10/30/2009 12:53:50 PM)
Mrya. I'm sorry for your early death and premature aging of your face.
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Few Clothes, America (10/30/2009 3:37:58 PM)
Myra. I can see why you have no loved ones!
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Gramps, (10/30/2009 6:22:57 AM)
Smokers freedom ends where my nose begins.
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J C OK, Tulsa County (11/5/2009 1:44:03 PM)
Smoke in your own home, car and away from others. For you old smokers it is probably to late for you but for young folks and those of us who have severe allergies not only to smoke but perfumes, etc stay away from us in public.


I have as much problem with these old ladies and guys with their colognes and after shave. I ask for a booth away from others when I go out to eat and then the server is drenched in a stinking cologne, etc. I have ask several good restaurants to tell their servers to refrain from wearing to much "smell". If they want my money, I do not intend to get sick at my stomach and have a headache because some one does not have enough sense to over dose on cologne.
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Sarge776, Tulsa (10/30/2009 7:03:56 AM)
Gramps, (10/30/2009 6:22:57 AM)
Smokers freedom ends where my nose begins.
Then maybe you should keep your nose out of my personal business and stay away from those places that offer areas for us smokers to congregate while enjoying a meal or a drink. We have rights as well, and when the government can pull away those individual freedoms, then they can pull other freedoms away as well. Maybe we should put a ban on fat people from eating where those with less fat tend to eat. How about the people with weird haircuts as well. Or, those with offensive perfume or cologne. The list goes on.
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randomlogic101, (10/30/2009 11:07:47 AM)
They need to target banning smoking in the casinos.
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Tuffyok, (10/30/2009 8:20:41 AM)
I don't necessarily have a problem with not being able to smoke in a restaurant. But a Bar, I do. If you don't want to breathe smoke while you work, don't work in a bar. If you don't want to breathe smoke while you drink, drink in a restaurant. Arkansas bars and restaurants have the option to post a sign "No One Under 21 years of age allowed, you will be subject second hand smoke in this establishment." So you nonsmokers still come in a complain. Stay Out!
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MyraGulch, (10/30/2009 12:27:43 PM)
"Few Clothes" what makes you think that your beliefs are the way it should be? Whose to say that "us lungers" as you so eloquently put it, will not pass away from some sort of illness unrelated to our tobacco usage. I'm sure that you certainly have no vices that will shorten your lifespan. And as far costing my loved ones money, I have none, so they won't be out anything.
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MyraGulch, (10/30/2009 1:23:58 PM)
thank you, clearly a comment based on you're own personal experiences as a Smoke Nazi
 

 
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