Clean Air Emporia
A group name Clean Air Emporia, promoting a smoking ban for the city, will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Thursday at Gambino’s Pizza, 1003 Industrial Road, to launch its campaign.
U.S. Senate candidate
Jim Slattery, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, will be at the Emporia Arts Council from 4 to 5 p.m. on Friday for a reception to meet with area residents.
The reception, open to the public, is sponsored by Barb Fowler and E.T. Anderson, co-chairs for the Slattery for Senate group in Lyon County.
Refreshments will be served.
For information, call 343-9433 or
343-0777.
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Posted by BillHannegan (anonymous) on July 11, 2008 at 11:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Despite what former Surgeon General Carmona has said, controversy remains concerning secondhand smoke. According to the most recent Gallup Poll, nearly half of Americans are not convinced that secondhand smoke is a severe health risk. The controversy has been further fueled by a recent UCLA study, the longest-running and highest-quality secondhand smoke study ever done, completed "too late" (2003) to be included in Surgeon General Carmona’s report, that found no link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer or heart disease.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/f...
Posted by jayhawker (anonymous) on July 12, 2008 at 1:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I am entertained by Kansas Democrats who support both Obama and Slattery. One (Obama) runs on a platform to rid the capitol of lobbyist and their influence, describing them as the epitome of what is wrong with Washington, while the other (Slattery) has made millions of dollars as (you guessed it) a lobbyist. Can they have their cake and eat it, too?
Posted by BillHannegan (anonymous) on July 12, 2008 at 5:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The Clean Air Emporia website contains a hugely misleading claim that needs to be clarified. Twice the website makes this claim:
"During an 8 hour work shift in a smoky bar, an employee can inhale secondhand smoke equivalent of smoking 16 cigarettes (4short of a pack)."
http://www.emporiansfordrugawareness.com......
http://www.emporiansfordrugawareness.com......
16 cigarettes is a trick number. Clean Air Emporia is merely saying that the chemical NDMA (N-nitroso-dimethylamine) is more present in secondhand smoke than in actively inhaled smoke. It takes 16 cigarettes actively smoked to equal the NDMA exposure a bartender receives after eight hours at work in a smoky bar. Does this mean that a nonsmoker becomes almost a-pack-a-day passive smoker by taking a job in a smoky bar? Hardly. The actual smoke a bartender breathes in the smokiest bar as measured by total tobacco-specific particles inhaled equals about one-fifth of a cigarette per eight-hour shift, or one cigarette per 40-hour week.
http://www.ehponline.org/members/1999/Su......
Of course, affordable air filtration machines can reduce these fractional smoke exposures to near zero.
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