[SheLion]

Waitresses have higher rates of lung and heart disease than any other traditionally female occupational group, according to a study published by the 'Journal of the American Medical Association,'" reads the answer. "According to the same report, one shift in a smoky bar is equivalent to smoking 16 cigarettes in a day."

This is bogus and can no longer be used! I don't know what smoky "back street" bar they are referring to, but most of your bigger bars/taverns today have smoke eaters to pull the smoke and the smell out of the air.

This statement has got to be eliminated in today's high tech age.

[E Rocc]

This is bogus and can no longer be used! I don't know what smoky "back street" bar they are referring to, but most of your bigger bars/taverns today have smoke eaters to pull the smoke and the smell out of the air.

This statement has got to be eliminated in today's high tech age.

The smoke eaters are why the nannies resist adopting the same method used for dealing with exposure to every other workplace "toxin" there is, the Permissable Exposure Level. If PELs were established then bars would find ways to meet them while allowing smoking, and they wouldn't have their excuse to promote their busybody laws.

-Eric

[Great Dane]

Waitresses have higher rates of lung and heart disease than any other traditionally female occupational group,

Besides, there is no mentioning of whether the study included smoking wait-staff, thus the study is a farce as always.