European Union calls for EU-wide workplace smoking ban
Many European countries have placed public smoking bans in place in the last 12 months, something that is seen in many areas around the world as a global public finally sees that second-hand smoke is not only dangerous to non-smokers, but can be deadly.The European Union may have a multi nation-wide smoking ban across all countries in the Union if the European Parliament gets its way. The body has suggested just that: an EU-wide ban on smoking in the workplace. It's not "in all public places," but it's a great start.
It's estimated that over two million die in China from passive smoking, and up to 80,000 in Europe also pass away as a direct results of exposure to second-hand smoke. Progress, however, is being made in eradicating these toxic products from the environment of people who want no part of them.
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10-26-2007 @ 5:25PM
JoLynn Braley said...
I think that's fabulous, I'd love to see more of that here in the U.S. It doesn't mean that if you choose to smoke you can't, but I don't want to be around it!
In addition to banning it in the workplace, I think it would be brilliant to ban it from a certain # of feet from the building itself. Then those people who don't smoke won't have to their breath to walk through a crowd of smokers who are grouped around the doorways to the building. I'm sure that smokers wouldn't like that, but it really is a downer to non-smokers to have to walk through the smog, and it can put a negative spin in the minds of visitors and potential clients who are walking in to the business establishment.
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10-26-2007 @ 5:27PM
Jess said...
Smoking is bad for you anyway. People should give up smoking and drink green tea.
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10-27-2007 @ 7:48AM
richard day gore said...
Uh-oh, another tyrannical attempt by the Evil Ones to curtail people's sacred right to kill themselves and others with cigarettes. What next?
Richard Day Gore
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