[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

[Gabz]

The antis (I forget which group) sued OSHA to set a zero limit for ETS, when OSHA refused they sued. the lawsuit was quietly dropped because the antis finally got it through their collective blockheads that had OSHA set PELs for ETS, smoking would be permitted nearly everywhere.

A PEL of zero is impossible because most of the compnents of tobacco smoke already have acceptable PEL level and all sorts of things would have had to be eliminated - most of it having to do with cooking!!!

[SheLion]

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.

They are living in the dark ages! They KNOW what business's have done to accomodate all the people, yet they are still touting the "Heavy Smoke In Air" syndrome, and the general public believes it. If the general public doesn't frequent restaurants/bars/taverns to see for themselves, then they believe all the lies and the garbage the nanny's are still spewing.