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Charlotte considers sidewalk smoking ban

Thursday, October 22, 2009
(Updated 7:39 am)

CHARLOTTE (AP) — The city council in North Carolina's largest city is considering a smoking ban for some public sidewalks.

North Carolina will ban smoking in restaurants and bars next year. The Charlotte Observer reported today that Central Piedmont Community College has asked Charlotte City Council to ban smoking on some sidewalks that intersect with the campus.

The new smoking law takes effect Jan. 2 and allows local governments to ban smoking in public parks but officials say it's not clear that sidewalks are included.

North Carolina is behind much of the nation for smoking bans. But a spokeswoman for a nonsmoking advocacy group says banning smoking on sidewalks would push Charlotte to the forefront of anti-smoking efforts.

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harleyrider1978

October 22, 2009 - 9:30 am EDT

Outdoor bans are even crazier than indoor bans. The chemical make-up of shs is nearly 94% water vapor and A SLIGHT AMOUNT OF CARBON DIOXIDE with about 3% being carbon monoxide AND 3% CONTAINING THOSE SUPPOSED KILLER CARCENOGENS.........

n-nitrosomines which you hear so much about is actually arsenic..what they dont tell you is that the measurements they took match the naturally occuring arsenic in the air outside everywhere.
they measured levels at 0-29 picograms....which is totally safe...the amount has to be 5 million times that to be harmful to humans........you see how they switched it. Trying to blame shs for what is actually a natural thing. The levels of other things in shs if they can be measured at all are millions if not billions of times smaller than the amounts needed to harm anyone......just remember this second hand smoke is a joke within nano seconds from the burn it turns into WATER VAPOR.....Even the exhaled smoke is loaded down with water vapor...osha has said nothing in shs/ets is going to harm you or anyone else.....what shs will do is irritate those with weak immune responces.......thats why shs is classified as a class 3 IRRITANT BY OSHA AND THE EPA.....Remember this a prohibition movement must rely on scare tactics and big money in order to succeed to the level of getting legislation....These outdoor regulations are even crazier than the first claims made for indoor bans.......

As for secondhand smoke in the air, OSHA has stated outright that: "Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)...It would be very rare to find a workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded." -Letter From Greg Watchman, Acting Sec'y, OSHA, To Leroy J Pletten, PHD, July 8, 1997
-harleyrider1978

pixelpusher

October 22, 2009 - 10:26 am EDT

It's not so much the health risks that concern me with smoking as it is the nasty smell.

Yes, there are other offensive odors that aren't legislated, but two wrongs don't make a right.

There should also be a law against those loud exhaust systems that people put on their motorcycles. What's the purpose in those harleyrider1978?

harleyrider1978

October 22, 2009 - 10:56 am EDT

Laws based upon HATE and psuedo-science have no place in law or the minds of free americans. let freedom ring

Lakeshia

October 22, 2009 - 12:45 pm EDT

What kind of ignorant doofus would suck smoke into their respiratory system ???

harleyrider1978

October 22, 2009 - 1:41 pm EDT

HATE its a terrible thing to make ones judgements on.....but hey its rubber stamped by the progressive liberals the ones behind the bans.

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