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HARLEYRIDER1978 wrote:

Air quality test results by Johns Hopkins
Town can't ban smoking, attorney says
By Prentiss Findlay (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Thursday, June 26, 2008
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/jun/26/to ... LINK TO THIS STORY WAS DELETED we wonder why but I have retained the original story.
COLUMBIA — An attorney for Bert's Bar argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the town of Sullivan's Island does not have the authority to ban smoking in the workplace.
Bert's Bar attorney Paul Dominick said that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, through the state Department of Labor, regulates workplace smoking.
Justice Donald Beatty questioned Dominick's assertion.
"I don't tend to agree that what you say is the case," Beatty told Dominick. "So you're saying we were wrong when we ruled on the Greenville issue?"
Justice James Moore noted there is no state or OSHA regulation that relates to smoking.
"What you're wanting is for this court to be the first court to implement this as far as OSHA is concerned," Moore said. "If we were to agree with you, then we would have to overturn Foothills (the Greenville case)."
Frances Cantwell, representing the town, said a Supreme Court ruling in March that upheld Greenville's smoking ban validates the Sullivan's Island ordinance. Cantwell said the ordinance does not conflict with the state's Clean Indoor Air Act and compared the town ordinance with Charleston's 2 a.m. closing time for bars. Cantwell said all the issues were decided when the court issued its ruling upholding the Greenville smoking ban.
"Sullivan's Island does not punish any conduct that the state regulates," Cantwell said.
The court will issue a written opinion but has not said when it will do so.
Bert's Bar is closed. The owners said part of the reason for closing the longtime island establishment was lost business because of the smoking ban.
The attorney's claim actually has more validity than you know:
Air quality test results by Johns Hopkins University, the American Cancer Society, a Minnesota Environmental Health Department, and various researchers whose testing and report was peer reviewed and published in the esteemed British Medical Journal......prove that secondhand smoke is 2.6 - 25,000 times SAFER than occupational (OSHA) workplace regulations:
http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com
All nullify the argument that secondhand smoke is a workplace health hazard.
Especially since federal OSHA regulations trump, or pre-empt, state smoking ban laws which are not based on scientific air quality test results.
Mark Wernimont
Watertown, MN.

HARLEYRIDER1978 wrote:

Its there because liberal channel 5 isnt going to tell anyone the real truth behind the second hand smoke falacie.......thats just what this tenn smoking ban is a big lie........robert wood johnson foundation bought themselves a smoking ban in the state so they could sell 200million dollars worth of smoking cessation drugs to the state......you have been dupped,passive smoking doesnt harm anyone and thats a fact.....we will get the ashtrays back out and in the public domain. The mom and pop businesses will again thrive and maybe retail liscences will bounce back along with the states revenues,losses incurred because of the smoking ban......wafflehouse business down 60%....people crossing the stateline to eat and shop just because they can smoke in public places.....you dont outlaw 35% of the states population from the public table without repercussions.
Channel 5 should be promoting the truth about the ANTI-SMOKING groups and their far reaching NAZI tactics......you do realize ASH has said the lawmakers need to outlaw smoking in peoples homes and other crazy crap........ut instead channel 5 is in lock step with the anti-smoking NAZIS.

comment wrote:

If everyone and including the truckers stay home for one day and not buy gas I think it would make a lot of difference.

Jason B Bour wrote:

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One day does nothing. If you want to make a difference in gas prices we need to make effects more long term such as no vacations this year, reduce our fuel waste by properly maintaining our cars, driving more responsibly, and quite driving kids down the street to a friends house.
I have a SUV owner in my neighborhood, and that vehicle does not stay parked long enough to get cold.