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

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 ...
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 ...
New York City had the lowest concentration of indoor pollutants of all the cities at 25 micrograms per cubic meter of air ...

DC Judge Sets Back Smoking Ban Ballot Initiative

By filing the suit, the restaurant association was able to keep Initiative 66 boosters from beginning to collect signatures for the initiative, also known as A D ...
cities, and found that indoor air pollution was an average of 82 percent lower in smoke-free cities ...
They argued that the initiative illegally infringed upon powers of local government officials to make decisions that affect city revenue ...
The differences can be attributed to the number of smokers at a given time and how well the ventilation system displaces the air, Hyland said ...

Minneapolis Residents Favor Smoking Ban

The differences can be attributed to the number of smokers at a given time and how well the ventilation system displaces the air, Hyland said ...
The shift in public opinion that secondhand smoke poses a serious health risk has occurred in the past five years as medical evidence has mounted and the issue has become a media focus, said Jack Davis, CEO of the ...
In Minnesota, Duluth, Moose Lake, Cloquet and Olmsted County have adopted similar bans; 39 cities have proposed them ...
Clean Air Minneapolis reports that of 600 registered voters randomly surveyed May 15-17, 72 percent supported a smoking ban in restaurant s and bars ...
Half of the regular smokers polled also said their right to smoke is second to others' rights to clean air, according to the survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points ...

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

The group's poll also shows that 84 percent of respondents said they think exposure to secondhand smoke is a serious or ...
cities, and found that indoor air pollution was an average of 82 percent lower in smoke-free cities ...
75 percent sales tax on top of that -- especially while lawmakers increasingly look at cig-arette-tax increases as a way to reap new revenue while deterring smoking ...

Eatery Sues, Claims Smoking Ban Unconstitutional

In Minnesota, Duluth, Moose Lake, Cloquet and Olmsted County have adopted similar bans; 39 cities have proposed them ...
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 ...
It does so because bars pay thousands of dollars more for state liquor licenses than restaurant s pay for their licenses, the suit alleges ...

Arkansas State Smoking Restrictions to be Debated

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 beyond that date ...
They argued that the initiative illegally infringed upon powers of local government officials to make decisions that affect city revenue ...
The new law Act 8 of the recent special legislative session, has no emergency clause, and therefore, according to a recent opinion by the state attorney general Borhauer said ...
The differences can be attributed to the number of smokers at a given time and how well the ventilation system displaces the air, Hyland said ...

Brooke County Passes Smoking Ban

The unanimously adopted Brooke County Clean Indoor Air Regulation requires restaurant s to have at least 75 percent of their occupancy be non- smoking , but it provides for an exemption for free-standing bars as well as free-standing video lottery rooms ...
had the highest levels of indoor air pollution at 392 micrograms per cubic meter of air followed by Baltimore, Philadelphia and Hoboken ...
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 ...

Santa Rosa City Council Approves Smoking Ban

Gooden Terrell called Initiative 66 "invalid" and "improper" and ordered the D ...
The differences can be attributed to the number of smokers at a given time and how well the ventilation system displaces the air, Hyland said ...
If they do sell cigarettes, the price includes all applicable local taxes and the cigarette tax, she said ...
Pierce proposed the expansion of the city's smoking law after bus drivers complained about smoke wafting into buses at transit stations and witnessing nonsmokers constantly moving their chairs to escape drifting secondhand smoke outside restaurant s and bars ...
The group reports that secondhand smoke is the third-leading cause of preventable death, claiming 53,000 nonsmokers' lives each year ...

NH Lags Behind Smokefree Legislation Trend

Bertram said he believes the community will find that many business owners will decide on their own that they would like to make their business more than 75 percent smoke-free or totally smoke-free ...
District Court in Fort Myers this week against the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco ...
The state Supreme Court struck down a townwide smoking ban last August in bars and restaurant s in Colebrook, a northern outpost of 2,300 people near the Vermont and Canadian borders, ruling that the state law forbids municipalities from enforcing stricter standards ...
Clean Air Minneapolis, which sponsored the survey, was founded by the Hennepin Medical Society as a campaign to educate the public about secondhand smoke and promote smoke-free work environments ...
Twenty-five percent said they would oppose it; 3 percent were undecided ...

MSA Provides Greater Benefits to Industry Than To Public Health

If the federal DOJ files suit against the tobacco industry and settles for about $125 billion over the next 25 years, which many Wall Street ...
In Minnesota, Duluth, Moose Lake, Cloquet and Olmsted County have adopted similar bans; 39 cities have proposed them ...
For example, nothing in the MSA prohibits the National Smoker'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 ...