January 15, 2007
Quit smoking - With bans in parks and other outdoor areas, has the anti-smoking movement gone too far? (Tri-Valley Herald)
With bans in parks and other outdoor areas, has the anti-smoking movement gone too far? (Tri-Valley Herald)
IN THE early 1990s, Dr. Michael Siegel began leading pioneering efforts to ban smoking in workplaces to protect the health of nonsmokers.
Source: www.insidebayarea.com
Smoking ban strikes Georgica revenues (Edinburgh Evening News)
GEORGICA, the snooker and tenpin leisure group, said its revenues had fallen marginally over 2006 - hurt by Scotland's smoking ban.
Source: edinburghnews.scotsman.com
Study examines benefit of CT scans for lung cancer detection (Daily Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N.C. - Bambi MacRae never fretted about getting lung cancer. She stopped smoking more than 40 years ago when she was in her 20s. As a flight attendant, she inhaled others' smoke aplenty, but she quit that job in 1967.
Source: www.dailybulletin.com
Outdoor smoking bans rile anti-tobacco leader (Contra Costa Times)
In the early 1990s, Dr. Michael Siegel began leading pioneering efforts to ban smoking in workplaces to protect the health of nonsmokers. Siegel, who got his start in the anti-smoking cause while earning his master's degree at UC Berkeley, has written dozens of scientific articles on the dangers of secondhand smoke. His testimony in court and at countless city council meetings also helped push …
Source: www.contracostatimes.com
Inconvenience may be motivation to quit (Dayton Daily News)
DAYTON On a recent chilly afternoon downtown, Carol Markland huddled with several co-workers on a wind-swept plaza, all of them smoking cigarettes a good 100 feet from the entrance to their offices. Markland's firm, which she asked not be named, has a new policy that bans smoking on its premises, inside or outside.
Source: www.daytondailynews.com
