[C-U Smokefree] Re: CU-Smokefree digest, Vol 1 #39 - 3 msgs

[Theotskl at aol.com]

Hi all--

approaching the bar and restaurant owners like this would be a huge mistake!! 
The hospitality industry has been, and continues to be, one of the biggest of 
the tobacco industry.  That is who they listen too.  The hospitality industry 
does not give a flying rats rear [sic] [and excuse the expression] about 
science and health effects of secondhand smoke exposure. 

Neither do they care about the credible scientific literature and its 
findings that there is a  lack of significant negative impacts from smoke-free 
ordinances.  Trying to imagine that these people in the hospitality industry could 
be educated is trying to imagine that one could train a rock to speak.

Instead, civic leaders from the local community should be approached via 
personal contacts and thus start a capacity building foundation which when it 
reaches critical mass should be used to approach citycouncil members, especially 
in Champaign.

Do not even think that approaching hospitality industry for educational 
purposes would even do a fractioj of an ounce of benefit towards the actualization 
of a smokefree ordinance.

I had no intention of being so explicit, but I truly believe both as a 
published researcher on local ordinances, as well as a policy palnner, that 
approaching the local hospitality industry would be a huge mistake at this point!

Theo
Theo Tsoukalas, Ph.D.
theotskl at aol.com