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

[Alan and Anita Cohen]

I couldn't agree more.  This will just help to mobilize the opposition.

AC


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>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
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