Smoking in the Workplace

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New York 's Ban on Smoking in Bars and Restaurants

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Smoking in the Workplace

Since1998 , the U .S . Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Heath Administration (OSHA ) had been studying the effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS ) through their scientific workshops . ETS or much commonly known as second hand smoke or passive smoke is a known human carcinogen according to the American Heart Association . Carcinogen is the collective term to all substance that

is scientifically proven to cause cancer

Each state had been reevaluating their laws concerning the safety of their citizens primarily their working force that is most exposed to this kind of smoke . New York , the last state that had reexamined their state laws regarding this matter , had followed the revisions made by our state Los Angeles , and the state Delaware to include the bars and restaurants in the smoking ban . The state had weighted more the health issue in spite of some people 's opposition

Some people concerned were arguing that the state was intruding the people 's right to choose . The owners of some bars and restaurants were among of them . They were saying that with the states declaration , their business would be affected considering the fact that their usual costumers stay in their establishments while smoking . Furthermore , their employees had at first place know that their establishment permits smoking within their workplace . The owners then are sure that no one in his employees would complain with regards to the workplace 's air condition . This claim had been considered in the OSHA 's first rules with regards to these workplaces . But with the state laws intervention , this considered loophole had been closed to its smoking citizens (Umansky 1997

Bars and Restaurants lawyers proposed a truce with this amendment by offering that their clients would build a separately ventilated area in their establishment so that their employees would not be affected with their costumers smoke . Casino owners were also requesting for an exemption with the said state law on the ground the same as to the bars and restaurant owners

Last 2003 , Nation 's Restaurant News gave the stand of Peter Christie president and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association "We don 't support passage , but we don 't oppose it " the article had quoted from him . This neutral stance of Christie suggest that they were not opposing the move of the state to protect their citizens with second hand smoke , but the state should also must consider the effect of banning cigarettes to their business . Another restaurant owner expressing his sentiments , Dennis Gallagher of the Cellar Bar in Larchmont , N .Y and The Willett House in Port Chester , N .Y , said I think it 's a bad law ' He thinks that his costumers would switch to the other restaurants in other states that don 't have this kind of law

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