Straight Talk About Smoke-Free Workplace Laws

This six-minute video examines the benefits of smoke-free policies to businesses. It features restaurant and bar owners, employees and industry representatives talking about how these policies are good for health and for business. The video was produced jointly by Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke (KIISS), American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation (ANR Foundation) and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

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[sreymind]

@KripDrip Thousands of people? Ok, name three of them. 'The right to clean air is a right' lol. Bypassing the nonsensical phrasing, yes, everyone has the right to clean air; go to the country if you wish and no one will stop you, but that's very different from marching onto someone's private property and demanding the air be tailored to your liking. I can assure you no one has such a right. You can't see past your own bigotry Kripdrip.

[KripDrip]

this is a public health issue. No one should have to be subjected to deadly cancerous 2nd hand smoke. The right to healthy clean air is a right! Thousands of people die every year from 2nd hand smoke. Non smokers have rights too. Why dont you smoke at home and leave us alone.

[KripDrip]

u still thanking Michigan for that now?

[Cormaxx]

People have the NEED to breathe.If we don't breathe, we're dead! We have the right to breathe clean, fresh, HEALTHY air.

[prfsnlwannabe]

Amen on the propaganda comment! These laws do nothing but deprive entrepreneurs their legal right to cater to smokers. Smokers used to have options to dine/drink just like non-smokers, before selfish bans became law.

Why couldn't laws suffice requiring clear exterior signage for places allowing smoking, and for businesses to disclose on job applications and in interviews their smoking policy, so anyone that is legitimately affected by smoke can avoid smoking establishments?

[generalsn1234567]

This is similar to the propaganda films of the Nazi era. They can't even tell the difference between a neighborhood bar and a family restaurant that also serves alcohol.

[generalsn1234567]

In my neighborhood in Chicago, most bars ignore the ban to stay in business. Children are not exposed to excessive smoke at home as parents can still go out with their friends to congregate and smoke without risking frostbite.

[Hackneyrob]

Spain and Portugal and some US states decided that it is against citizens' democratic rights to have a blanket ban, but our government decided to ignore people's rights, despite 65% of the population being against a blanket ban.

[Hackneyrob]

Amazing that smoking kills only 38,000 people a year in the US out of a 250+ million population, because here in the UK the government claim that 55,000 people a year die from smoking-related illnesses, out of a population of 60 million. It's all nonsense. If we had a democratic choice, we would have smoking bars and non-smoking bars and nobody would mind that.

[Hackneyrob]

If you don't want to smoke, stay at home. Simple.