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VOTEYES County~ouncil Bill 260
Smoking in the workplace
Please pass county council bill 260 -which v+ould
Second hand smoke is a class protect workers m all businesses including restau-
A carcinogen like asbestos
and radon. i would not wane rang end bars from the health consequences of
co work, eaz around or be second hard~xmoke. Second hand smoke is the
exposed co any of these 3rd most preventable cause of death in rile USA '
carcinogens. Why should
anyone else?
Studies of communities that have gone smoke free -
show that it dces not negatively affect business
A healthy working envi- and sometimes boosts it. This is according tc
ronment (or all studies that use sales tax rata and sound research
Big Islanders methods.
_ `USA Today sLr0®~i-
showed more than half of
_ _ American say~6hey, regularly avoid places to keep
' ~ from sm lieg of ci~aret~~ smoke afterward.
_ ~ ~ Places th ~ipvoidf~idclut~~ Bars/lounges (70%)
_ JJight Clu ~(Y)lt urants (48%)
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