What is secondhand smoke exactly and what are the effects it has on nonsmokers? Second hand smoke is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar, and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. This mixture contains more than four thousand substances, more than forty of which are known to cause cancer in humans and many of which are irritants. Secondhand smoke is estimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to cause approximately three thousand lung cancer deaths in U.S. nonsmokers each year. (EPA) It is time that restaurant employees and customers are provided the same protection we have in all other public places and workplaces. As a result of the thousands of deaths which occur each year from secondhand smoke, smoking in restaurants should be banned.
Oklahoma will be only the fifth state in the nation to impose tough restrictions on smoking in public. The bill, which will restrict smoking in public workplaces and restaurants, won’t go into full
We can look back on the ban of smoking on all airline flights, buses, trains, enclosed workplaces, hospitals, and many more public places and view that as being legitimate. So why is there such controversy on banning smoking in restaurants? New York’s Mayor Mike Bloomberg says it’s time for smokers to face up to the changing currents of history. “Years from now, people will look back in amazement that smoking was once allowed in bars and restaurants,” he says. (EBSCOhost) Some of us look at the issue now and are amazed that it is still allowed, especially when you get a first hand experience of certain situations that appear to be just plain ridiculous. Take for example, my husband and I have a favorite restaurant we like to go to, but each time I sit there at our table and listen and observe as the host asks the customer, “Smoking or non?,” I am astounded. I listen as the customer says they wish to be seated in the nonsmoking area and then I watch as the customer is led through the smoke-filled section in order to get to t
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