SB346 online petition

My on-line signature below indicates my request for Ohio's Legislators and Governor Strickland to support SB346. SB346 will put back into law, the exemptions Issue 5 said we would have for private clubs, family owned businesses and outdoor patios. This bill needs to be passed as quickly as possible, as Ohio's families, their businesses and employees and private clubs and their employees are hanging in the balance. Already hundreds of bars and private clubs have closed their doors. Ohio's unemployment rate of 7.4%, with Hospitality and Leisure leading those numbers, clearly shows the dire need for expediency.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ooob_SB346...

Four Groups File Complaints Against Carmona's 2006 Report

Scientific Misconduct as Reasons for Complaints Against Ex-Surgeon General

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- In June, 2006, then
Surgeon General Carmona released his report titled "The Health Consequences
of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke". Since that date, his report has
drawn criticism from Scientists and Epidemiologists worldwide.

Four separate groups have filed complaints with the Office of Research
Integrity, Health and Human Services against Ex-Surgeon General Carmona's
2006 Report.

Opponents of Ohio Bans filed a complaint against the scientific
misconduct (manipulation of research) of the economic assessment/impact of
smoking bans. According to Carmona's report, smokefree policies do not harm
business. Two thirds of the studies in Carmona's report were either
authored or co-authored by Stanton Glantz, Director of the Center for
Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California San
Francisco School of Medicine, who is not an economist. He and his
university have profited heavily by anti-tobacco funding and grants.
Absolutely no studies or reports conducted by economists or trade
organizations were cited in Carmona's report, although many sources were
available at the time. For example, the highly regarded Deloitte and Touche
reported a study for the National Restaurant Association study (2004), the
Ridgeway Economic Associates New York Nightlife Association/Empire State
Restaurant and Tavern Association Study (05/12/2004), and Terry L. Clower,
Ph.D. & Bernard L. Weinstein, Ph.D. completed a study for Dallas Restaurant
Association Study (10/01/2004). "This is a glaring and obvious attempt to
stack the deck in favor of anti-tobacco versus the real damage done to the
hospitality industry. How was it even possible that the highest medical
authority in this country got away with this?" asks Pam Parker of Opponents
of Ohio Bans.