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WK 59 r 11� 0 <br />To protect the rights of the..majority <br />,, 67% of the <br />adult population does not smoke, If we include <br />everyone, and we should, more than 75%'of the entire <br />population are nonsmokers. <br />F) To promote a good health mentality in the population. <br />Many smokers today are stopping smoking because they <br />are concerned not only rith what they are doing to <br />themselves but also athers. -Smoking today is becoming <br />increasingly sociLily-unacceptable. <br />G) Any effort that discourages smoking -encouraees <br />o ine or <br />smokers to suit will nay handsome dividends as far <br />as the eood health of the community is <br />concerned. <br />rn sneakine iust about cancer deaths caused by smokin <br />X 'he Anril 1982 issue of the Harvard -Medical School <br />Health Letter stated that,. "A vigorous campaign to <br />and -cigarette smoking -would !save morn lives vi --.I <br />virtually anything elte we could do." <br />2 -Is It Possible? <br />As one California Court has said: "LegiTlation <br />designed to free from Vollution the ve-i,;- fir' t <br />people breathe clearly falls vi thin the <br />. ......... <br />0 t of what J - <br />f even the most traditinnal c-oncep <br />compediously known as pdYice power", "Cleq.n 1--io-oor <br />Air Legislation can be validated as. -an 42-rstrume-71t <br />which regulates and protects public -health, A'Drope <br />-s pulice power. Phis - w g um t <br />subject of a state' <br />its foundation in cases which upheld s t a t. eL h e a atc ne <br />a <br />such as those mandating small pox vaccinations for <br />citizens and the fluoridation of public drinking w tev <br />to control cavities"i "Sufficient medical evidence -­-iksts <br />to indicate a probable correlation between impaired <br />health and the inhalation of tobacco smoke. Though <br />the harm to be avoided is not contagious as smallpox <br />Is nor <br />as obvious as dental cavities the burden olaced <br />on the smoker is light compared to, for examnle <br />submission to innoculation. In essence, it is VLOt .4;: <br />too much to ask that smokers not smoke in public places <br />where their smoke endangers the health and'comfort <br />around them not to mention themselves'.' <br />W 4,4N 4.1, <br />B Numerous s <br />i ordinances already exist on the <br />stat your <br />and local level for example: <br />lw� <br />-JIThe Minnesota Clean Indoor Act was the first major <br />comprehensive State wide Act passed in 1975.The <br />Act prohibits smoking in public places and public <br />meetings, execpt <br />i n designated.smoking areas., 0 <br />th <br />=States .with legislation restricting smoking in pub <br />" <br />"places- include: Alaska Connecticut, <br />- -Hawaii"' Iowaowa'- <br />!Kansas'Nebraska; Michigan, New Jersey,'.N..Dakota; ' <br />regan:1-Texas),,`9'Uta'h (State Legislation-cin:-'sMo'king, <br />. . . . . . . . . . <br />. .... ..... <br />'arid Health, 1980) <br />The Palm Beach County Clean Indoor Air Ordinance <br />passed in August -1980 prohibits smoking in all <br />Public places exzcept for designated areas. Other <br />Flarida Counties have Aiso Pp-rsed'ordinancesrelat- <br />dlig to smoking. <br />e s `0'n - Florida <br />-1.1 additivil Keis y ;it.& <br />r-rdinance! Liinitinf,-, smoking. ("Citt <br />Limiting or Prohibiting Smoking i <br />Fl__ — VLA—Mo) n <br />ori &a <br />have passed <br />Ordinances <br />t -he* Ttate of <br />