Show Letters To The Editor Regarding Gerald Narcisos Narciso's piece on smoking in n bars This kids kid's got to be nuts if he believes that thata a i waitress or bartender inhales the equivalent of apack's a ajack's apack's smoke two worth of second-hand second every packs pack's of the hours He should have checked out some studies on this very subject and one of them which is fairly typical is that a bartender inhales the he equivalent of 60 1 cigarette per hour or one- one hour 8 shift For a 5 seventh of a cigarette per bartender that figures out to about 35 week day cigarettes a year Second point p int Why should Utah protect patrons from smoking in bars and private clubs when are protected simply by exercising their constitutional patrons right to stay out of bars and private clubs that allow smoking What is this some new right of ownership that trumps the right of a bar owner to run his business as he sees fit in order tomake tomake to tomake make a profit Talk about the me generation Moreover why doesn't Master Narciso open his own bar and then forbid smoking in it theres there's no law against that thereby testing out his brilliant theory that in the long run businesses banning smoking could only thrive How the expletive does he know And to compound his claim he ends with the statement that over people in America die each year of second-hand second smoke Well heres here's what Dr Elizabeth Whelan an epidemiologist epidemiologist epidemiologist epi epi- tobacco anti-tobacco activist and president of the American Council on Science and Health had to say at the time the New York City ban went into convincing evidence effect There is simply no linking secondhand smoke to lung cancer and heart disease Also There is no evidence that any has ever died New Yorker patron or employee as a result of exposure to smoke in a bar or rant The link between secondhand smoke and premature death is a real stretch If Narciso had done his homework hed he'd know that the figure is a fiction based on junk science When 80 percent of the dozens of epidemiological epidemiological epidemiological epi- epi studies made over the past quarter insignificant insignificant insignificant century show only a weak or statistically association between secondhand smoke and he should ask either lung cancer or heart disease himself whether the source of the figure the organization may be no matter how prestigious may perhaps be suspect Well its it's not only suspect its it's a lie and I have material to prove it 1 Harry OBrien O'Brien I Dear Mr OBrien O'Brien According to the American Cancer Society secondhand smoke is the third leading preventable preventable preventable pre pre- cause of death in the US U.S. killing waiters nonsmokers year and to every and waitresses have almost twice the risk of lung cancer due to involuntary exposure to environmental environmental environmental environ environ- mental tobacco smoke Of course the American Amer ca science Cancer Society's claims are just junk with facts not impresses anyway Since you are and figures how about this The latest common commonsense in that if are breathing sense study shows you chemically altered tobacco that turns your lungs black it is probably not good for you Sincerely Yours Master Narciso 1 |