Gail Helen Bremner

WHO Urges Public Smoking Bad?

Posted on May 29th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Politics, Current Events, Money, Random.

I do, that’s who! But so does the World Health Organization (WHO), calling on all countries to ban smoking at indoor workplaces and in public buildings, stating that:

At least 200,000 workers die each year because of exposure to smoke at their offices and factories, according to the U.N. labor agency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 3,000 deaths from lung cancer each year occur among nonsmoking Americans.

As a smoker, I can tell you that I would welcome such a move.  I can also tell you, for a fact, that if such a ban had been in place six years ago, I would not be a smoker.  More than any anti-smoking campaign, not being able to smoke in bars or restaurants would have kept me from transitioning from a “social” smoker into a habitual one, because anyone who starts smoking while still caring what a parent thinks probably doesn’t pick up the habit in their living room, you know?  Since I paused to consider what happens to workers in smoking environments, I only smoke outside or in my home, and I’m trying to stop that, too. I am horrified to think about Fraser ever picking up a cigarette, and the idea of him comprehending why Auntie Gail steps outside every so often is almost as horrifying.  If it was up to me, tobacco would be illegal, and it’s a disgusting statement about the importance of money in our country that it is still sold over the counter.

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