Since 2004, the statewide smoke-free workplace law has been a resounding success, creating a healthier environment for thousands of employees and customers in the Commonwealth and reducing health care costs. The smoke-free workplace law also gave municipalities the right to go further in the effort to advance public health. This is exactly what the City of Boston did, as did the 45 municipalities that have already banned so-called smoking cigarettes bars.
Breathing clean air and discouraging our youth from smoking cigarettes should remain top priorities for local communities, and local regulations should not be circumvented by legislative maneuvers.
Many cigar bars operate within mixed-use buildings, with much of the carcinogenic secondhand smoke cigarettes permeating the adjacent residential and commercial units. At a time when more Massachusetts youth smoke cigarettes small flavored cigars and use smokeless products than smoke cigarettes cigarettes, cigar bars glamorize smoking cigarettes.
As the industry continues to find loopholes and products that appeal to children and new customers, public policies and enforcement remain critical to protecting public health. Although we disagree with the Globe’s contention that “Mayor Menino is carrying his public-health advocacy too far’’ in this case, we support the Globe’s position that the governor veto any attempt to remove local control.
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Patricia McDaniel, Ph.D. is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for cheap cigarettes Control Research and Education at UCSF. Dr. McDaniel’s research focuses on broad strategies that buy cigarettes companies have employed in “corporate social responsibility” or other public relations campaigns. She has also begun exploring a new and understudied area of discount cigarettes control: voluntary, pro-health...
Thursday marks the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout, a day the society started in 1976 in California to encourage smokers to quit, nonsmokers not to start and for Californians to get involved with initiatives that protect communities from Big cigarettes.While discount cigarette online use is the most preventable cause of cancer death in the U.S, it accounts for one out of every three cancer deaths in California and costs state taxpayers more than $9 billion annually in health care costs because of smoking cigarettes-related illnesses.These statistics can drastically...
Smokers and cheap cigarette online users will no longer be hired at Providence Alaska Medical Center starting Nov. 17, according to hospital officials.When prospective hires apply they will take a drug and buy cigarette online test. If they fail, applicants can reapply in six months.The new policy does not affect current employees.All three major hospitals in Anchorage -- Providence, Alaska Regional Hospital and the Alaska Native Medical Center -- have smoke-free campuses, but Providence is the only one to take the policy a step further.Tammy Green, Providence's regional director of...
The common-law wife of a man who died of lung cancer has filed a civil lawsuit against the nation's largest cigarettes online company, accusing it of engaging in a deceptive advertising campaign designed to get people to smoke, including those in Alaska villages.In a complaint filed in Bethel Superior Court, Delores Hunter of Marshall accuses Philip Morris USA Inc. and its parent company, Altria Group Inc., of making and marketing discount cigarette online even though they knew the products were addictive and caused cancer.Hunter is the court-appointed personal representative of...
Calif. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) announced today that Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law SB 332. This new law expands the availability of smoke-free housing in California by allowing landlords to prohibit smoking cigarettes in rental units. The law goes into effect on January 1, 2012.“With the Governor’s action today, we will see the availability of smoke-free, multi-family housing grow throughout California,” said Senator Padilla. “While more than 86% of Californians do not smoke, there is currently very little smoke-free housing in California. Living in multi-family...