[C-U Smokefree] Media hook suggestion

Thu Sep 9 12:18:18 CDT 2004

Greetings Scott and team in C/U,

Great news!  The embargo was lifted today, on a new study illustrating the 
benefits of smokefree air in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental 
Medicine. This is the first study of indoor air before and after 
implementation of a smokefree ordinance published in a peer-reviewed 
journal.  The study, conducted by health physicist James Repace, compared 
indoor air in a casino, six bars, and a pool hall in Wilmington both before 
and after implementation of Delaware's comprehensive statewide smokefree law.

This is a great opportunity for communities to maximize media coverage, and 
tie coverage into local smokefree efforts underway, prevent ventilation 
compromises at the local or state level, and protect strong smokefree laws 
already on the books.

Find the press release and study on our website at 
<http://www.no-smoke.org/>www.no-smoke.org. You should forward both the 
release and the study to your local media contacts and include contact 
information for you or a spokesperson (physician or other healthcare 
professional, smokefree champion, etc.).  In following up with them, 
consider the following talking points that highlight the importance of this 
study:

    * According to this research, bartending may be one of the most 
dangerous professions around.  Bartenders in smoke-filled bars are placed 
at higher risk of developing lung and heart disease, just by breathing. 
Smoke-filled indoor hospitality environments are more detrimental to a 
worker's health than working as a turnpike toll-collector.
    * We worry about outdoor air pollution, when the air inside may be 
20-fold worse. The smoke-filled indoor environments studied showed air 
pollution to be 20 times that of outdoor air, and 4.6 times higher than 
permissible levels set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
    * Ventilation cannot solve the problem, as VENTILATION technology 
installed in the indoor environments studied DID NOT WORK, as secondhand 
smoke contributed 85-95% of the carcinogen PPAH, and 90-95% of the 
respirable particulate air pollution- both markers for studying the levels 
of secondhand smoke.
    * Smokefree laws work. After implementation of Delaware's comprehensive 
state law, indoor air measurements in the same environments showed that the 
air was indistinguishable from the air outside (except one venue, with 
residual chalk dust, which was at 17% of pre-law levels).
    * This study illustrates why we, workers and citizens of 
Champaign/Urbana, must have 100% smokefree indoor workplaces and public 
places.  Ventilation did not work in Delaware, and it will not work here.

The key message is that smokefree policies protect workers and the public 
from secondhand smoke, and ventilation does not.  Make sure that your local 
media has this study and that you tie it back to your local smokefree 
efforts to maximize coverage of your activities.  Also share this study 
with your local policymakers as evidence that only 100% smokefree policies 
protect the public.

Feel free to call or email us for more information on how to pitch the 
story to local media in Champaign/Urbana.

Annie Tegen
Program Manager
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation
2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite J
Berkeley, CA 94702
annie.tegen at no-smoke.org
(206) 545-7175 phone
(206) 632-7515 fax
(510) 841-3032 x302 voice mail only
www.no-smoke.org

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>    1. News-Gazette editorial: Antismoking Drive is Moving       Forward
>       in C-U (George R. Carlisle, Jr.)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 01:51:00 -0500
>From: "George R. Carlisle, Jr." <carlisle at soltec.net>
>Subject: [C-U Smokefree] News-Gazette editorial: Antismoking Drive is
>         Moving  Forward in C-U
>To: <cu-smokefree at cu-smokefree.org>
>Cc: lewart at cu-smokefree.org, "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart at uiuc.edu>,
>         Scott P Hays <sphays at ad.uiuc.edu>
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>To the Editor:
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>     Hats off to the more than 900 people who signed the CU-Smokefree
>petition at the Downtown Urbana Sweetcorn Festival [August 27 and 28, 2004].
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>     We are well on our way toward achieving our goal of 3,000 or more
>signatures.  The group will ahve a booth at the Urbana Farmer's Market of
>September 11 [2004] for those who have not had a chance to sign previously.
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>     Secondhand smoke is becoming more and more of a health nuisance in
>public places. Often, when I have filled up my car with gasoline and am
>waiting in line to pay, I must put up with a noxious cigarette burning in an
>ashtray behind the counter.   This is also a potential fire hazard ifsome
>gasoline should spill and the vapors go inside the building.
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>     We must do all we can to ban smoking in public places in Champaign and
>Urbana.  Carle Foundation Hospital took a step by banning smoking outside on
>its grounds on September 1 [2004], as well as inside all of its buildings.
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>     If you would like mroe information, please go to www.CU-Smokefree.org .
>There are articles posted about successful smoking bans in other localities,
>minutes and announcements of our meetings, online petition forms and other
>ways you can help.
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>George R. Carlisle, Jr.
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>Urbana
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