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Poland: smoking ban begins
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As St. Mary's struck midnight last night, every last cigarette in Krakow's bars and clubs should have been extinguished. Whether that happened - and more importantly, whether anyone was enforcing it - is another story as a nation-wide smoking ban goes into effect in all public places in Poland.
Though smoking has been banned in most offices for some time, the law that went into effect at midnight on November 15 bans smoking in all public spaces, including hospitals, trains, public transportation stops, playgrounds, restaurants, and most controversially, pubs and clubs.
According to the law, a violation results in a 500 złoty fine for each individual caught smoking, as well as a 2,000 złoty fine for the establishment owner if no sign indicating a smoking ban is displayed. In Krakow, according to TVP Info, the city ran out of "no smoking" signs for pubs and clubs, leaving many owners to make their own before today's deadline.
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Though smoking has been banned in most offices for some time, the law that went into effect at midnight on November 15 bans smoking in all public spaces, including hospitals, trains, public transportation stops, playgrounds, restaurants, and most controversially, pubs and clubs.
According to the law, a violation results in a 500 złoty fine for each individual caught smoking, as well as a 2,000 złoty fine for the establishment owner if no sign indicating a smoking ban is displayed. In Krakow, according to TVP Info, the city ran out of "no smoking" signs for pubs and clubs, leaving many owners to make their own before today's deadline.
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The anti smoking lobby is now so conscious that their quest to reduce smoking is failing they are resorting to quite silly claims.
According to a study (if we are to believe the results) eating a bowl of cornflakes has potentially the same effect on the heart as 30 minutes exposure to passive smoke.
Also 'E'Cigarettes containing 1/12th of the nicotine of a patch is apparently as harmful or not as the case may be than ordinary cigarettes.
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/ Thanks to Professor Michael Siegel.
Secondhand smoke is clearly dangerous. Most medical experts know this. The research data is voluminous. Bulgarians should not close their eyes and minds to this.
Secondhand smoke is classified as a "known human carcinogen" (cancer-causing agent) by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US National Toxicology Program, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization.
Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds. More than 60 of these are known or suspected to cause cancer.
Secondhand smoke can cause harm [...]
Read the full comment in many ways. In the United States alone, each year it is responsible for:
***An estimated 46,000 deaths from heart disease in non-smokers who live with smokers
***About 3,400 lung cancer deaths in non-smoking adults
***Other breathing problems in non-smokers, including coughing, mucus, chest discomfort, and reduced lung function
***50,000 to 300,000 lung infections (such as pneumonia and bronchitis) in children younger than 18 months of age, which result in 7,500 to 15,000 hospitalizations annually
***Increases in the number and severity of asthma attacks in about 200,000 to 1 million children who have asthma
***More than 750,000 middle ear infections in children
***Pregnant women exposed to secondhand smoke are also at increased risk of having low birth- weight babies.
***Secondhand smoke may be linked to breast cancer
***Smoking and secondhand smoke linked to impotence in some studies of younger men.
If the public was honestly and truthfully informed about the effects of second-hand smoke, there would be fewer no-smoking laws in this country.
A little smoke from a handful of crushed leaves and some paper that is mixed with the air of a decently ventilated venue is going to harm or kill you?
There has never been a single study showing that exposure to the low levels of smoke found in bars and restaurants with decent modern ventilation and filtration systems kills or harms anyone.
As to [...]
Read the full comment the annoyance of smoking, a compromise between smokers and non-smokers can be reached, through setting a quality standard and the use of modern ventilation technology.
Air ventilation can easily create a comfortable environment that removes not just passive smoke, but also and especially the potentially serious contaminants that are independent from smoking.
Thomas Laprade
About 90% of secondary smoke is composed of water vapor and ordinary air with a minor amount of carbon dioxide. The volume of water vapor of second hand smoke becomes even larger as it qickly disperses into the air,depending upon the humidity factors within a set location indoors or outdoors. Exhaled smoke from a smoker will provide 20% more water vapor to the smoke as it exists the smokers mouth.
4 % is carbon monoxide.
6 % is those supposed 4,000 chemicals to be found in tobacco smoke. Unfortunatley for the smoke [...]
Read the full comment free advocates these supposed chemicals are more theorized than actually found.What is found is so small to even call them threats to humans is beyond belief.Nanograms,picograms and femptograms......
(1989 Report of the Surgeon General p. 80).