Smoke-free Hong Kong may allow hi-tech smoking rooms in bars
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Hong Kong - Hi-tech smoking rooms may be allowed in Hong Kong bars when a total ban on cigarettes in places where food and drink are being served comes into effect in 2009, a news report said Monday. Officials are examining a 40,000-US-dollar smoking room partly funded by British American Tobacco at a Hong Kong bar to see if exemptions should be granted to bars with hi-tech facilities. The tobacco company claims the room removes and recycles smoke fumes safely and argues that it could save bars with high percentages of smoking customers from going bust. However, the city's leading anti-smoking campaigner Anthony Hedley told Monday's South China Morning Post that allowing smoking rooms would be "nothing short of a scandal." The Hong Kong government will make recommendations to legislators on whether or not to allow the smoking rooms in a report early in 2009, the newspaper said. Smoking was banned in all public places in Hong Kong from January 2007 but a grace period of two and a half years was granted to some bars and nightclubs in the city of 6.9 million.
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Smoke-free Hong Kong may allow hi-tech smoking rooms in bars
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Helen ,
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:44:04 GMT
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The modern air management systems have been proved to work globally already. Just look at certain places in the US and Japan, you wouldn't realise that people were smoking in the same room. I trust that this trial proves successful and can be replicated throughout the world as soon as possible, before even further social, health, political and economic damage is done.
The 'perceived harm' from second-hand-smoke can be eliminated by these systems, so there is no reason for the bans, and businesses, customers and the workforce can carry on as usual.
If you want to reduce smoking prevalence, then you must use education, not legislation. Legislation does not work, as shown in statistics that are now starting to be released by governments throughout the world.
It's not only that, many ventilation systems have been switched off since smoking bans have been introduced in many places throughout the world, making our inside public places extremely unhealthy places to visit.
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madyv ,
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:12:15 GMT
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The propaganda and misinformation being spouted out about so called "passive smoking" is nothing short of a scandal.
If it does not work, why do you send employees into factorys and other places where it is needed!
http://www.antiprohibition.org/ticap_pages.php?q=6
1st World Conference Against Prohibition: "Smoking Bans and Lies"
Brussels, at the European Parliament Building, 27/28 January, 2009
From the UK - 8th August 2006 the HSE in the document OC 255/15 article9 state
for some strange reason hmm it has been changed to OC 255/16 Paragraph 14
” HSE cannot produce epidemiological evidence to link levels of exposure to second hand smoke to the raised risk of contacting specific diseases”.
http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/
Air quality testing 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:
freedom2choose.info for smokers and non-smokers alike, fighting for choice and TRUTH
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