SmokeFreeOhio

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SmokeFreeOhio

• Protecting every Ohioans right
• to breathe clean indoor air

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Secondhand smoke causes cancer

• Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer, killing
  3,000 people each year.
• Thats why the
• American Cancer Society
• supports SmokeFreeOhio.

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Secondhand smoke causeslung disease

• Secondhand smoke contributes to lung diseases,
• like asthma, emphysema, COPD, chronic bronchitis,
  
• and pneumonia.
• Thats why the
• American Lung
• Association supports
• SmokeFreeOhio.

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Secondhand smoke causesheart disease

• 35,000 Americans die every year from heart
  disease
• caused by secondhand smoke exposure.
• It is so dangerous that the CDC recommends that
  people
• with heart disease completely avoid places that
• allow indoor smoking.
• Thats why the
• American Heart
• Association supports
• SmokeFreeOhio.

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Secondhand smoke harms children

• In children secondhand smoke causes
• Asthma Hearing Loss
• Bronchitis Low Birth Weight
• Pneumonia Ear Infections
• Other Respiratory SIDS
• Illnesses

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The evidence is overwhelming

• The following are just a few of the organizations
  that agree that secondhand smoke is hazardous to
  your health
• World Health Organization
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• U.S. Surgeon General
• National Institutes of Health

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The evidence is overwhelming

• National Cancer Institute
• American Medical Association
• American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and
  Immunology
• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Mayo Clinic
• Cleveland Clinic
• Ohio Hospital Association
• Researchers in universities around the world

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You breathe more than you think

• Katherine Hammond, a professor at the University
  of California, Berkeley, studied how much smoke a
  nonsmoker would inhale in certain situations.
  Following is what she found.

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You breathe more than you think

• Sitting behind someone Comparable
• smoking in a stadium 3 hours to smoking
• Riding with someone smoking, Comparable
• windows up, in a car 1 hour to smoking
• Sitting behind someone Comparable
• smoking in a smoky bar to smoking
• 2 hours

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You breathe more than you think

• Sitting in nonsmoking section Comparable
• of a restaurant 2 hours to smoking
• Working in a smoker-friendly Comparable
• office 8 hours to smoking
• Living in a pack-a-day Comparable
• smokers home 24 hours to smoking

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Secondhand smoke is dangerous

• Secondhand smoke is dangerous to everyone, but
  especially to

Seniors
Children
People with health problems
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Workers deserve protection

• Passive smoking in the workplace poses 200 times
  the acceptable risk for lung cancer, and 2,000
  times the acceptable risk for heart disease.
• A study found that smoky bars, pool halls and
  casinos can have over two times more pollution in
  the air than roads clogged with diesel trucks at
  rush hour.

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Workers deserve protection

• Workers in bars, bowling alleys, billiard halls,
  and bingo parlors have a three to four times
  greater risk of developing lung cancer.
• Food service workers rank at the bottom of those
  workers protected by smoke-free workplaces.

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Workers deserve protection
My name is Frank and I am a chemist in
Cincinnati. When I work with polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons and any of the other cancer-causing
chemicals in secondhand smoke, I wear gloves and
goggles and open containers only with my hands
extended into a ventilated hood. I also get
annual blood tests to make sure Im not being
exposed to these chemicals.
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Workers deserve protection
My name is Maggie. Im a waitress in Cincinnati,
and when I work with polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons and other cancer-causing chemicals
in secondhand smoke, all I wear is an apron.
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Workers deserve protection
My employer protects me from these harmful
chemicals at work.
My employer doesnt.
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Workers deserve protection
Its almost unheard of for a chemist to die of
lung cancer from exposure at work.
Waitresses have a higher rate of lung cancer than
any other traditionally female job.
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Workers deserve protection
My employers have to protect me.
Shouldnt mine?
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• Everyone has the right to breathe clean indoor
  air in public places and workplaces.

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Businesses not hurt

• Smoke-free public places laws do not hurt
  business. Studies show that smoke-free workplace
  laws have a neutral or positive effect on
  business.
• More importantly, these laws have overwhelmingly
  positive effects on the
• health of workers and customers.

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Business and community leaders support these laws

• James McBratney, President of the Staten Island
  Restaurant and Tavern Association I have to
  admit, Ive seen no falloff in business in either
  establishment restaurant or bar. According to
  the New York Times, He went on to describe what
  he once considered unimaginable Customers
  actually seem to like it, and so does he.

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Business and community leaders support these laws

• Paul McIntyre, former representative for the
  California Restaurant Association, who had argued
  that a law would economically doom restaurants
  and bars My concerns about the success of the
  smoke-free law, however, quickly vanished soon
  after it was enacted. California was in the
  depths of the greatest recession since World War
  II, but restaurant sales did not slump. Rather,
  they continued to climb at rates of four to
  eleven percent annually. No jobs were
  lost.liquor sales continued growing in
  restaurants and bars without interruption.

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Business and community leaders support these laws

• Jim Farrell, vice president of operations for
  the Connecticut Restaurant Association For the
  most part, they restaurant owners didnt like
  to see it coming, but now that it is here, it is
  fine and everyone is OK with it.

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Business and community leaders support these laws

• Michael Casey, President of the Hotel
  Restaurant Employees, Local 2, AFL-CIO, of San
  Francisco The tobacco industry tried to scare
  our members into thinking their employers would
  lose business due to the smoking ban, and that
  they would lose their jobs The restaurants,
  bars, and hotels where our members work did not
  suffer any adverse effects from the smoking ban.
  If anything, its been good for business and
  customers as well as for our members.

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Ohioans supportsmoke-free public places

• 91 agreed that secondhand smoke presents a
  health risk to those who breathe it.
• 79 agreed that restaurant and bar workers are as
  entitled to a smoke-free work environment as
  workers in other occupations.
• 72.8 of Ohioans said they would support a clean
  indoor air law.

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Even Ohio smokers supportclean indoor air

• In a poll of Ohioans, 47.9 of current smokers
  said they support clean indoor air laws

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Asking smokers to step outside

• Smokers will still be welcome everywhere its
  just their smoke that wont.
• Were just asking smokers to step outside for a
  few minutes, then come back in to enjoy the fun.
• Its a small price to pay to save lives and
  health.

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States with smoke-free public places laws

• California Connecticut
• Delaware Maine
• Massachusetts Montana
• New York Rhode Island
• Vermont Washington

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Ohio cities with smoke-free public places laws

• Bexley Bowling Green
• Centerville Columbus
• Dublin Fairfield
• Gahanna Grandview Heights
• Granville Grove City
• Heath Hilliard
• Marble Cliff New Albany
• Newark Powell
• Toledo Upper Arlington
• Wauseon Westerville
• Worthington

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Countries with smoke-free public places laws

• Bhutan Cuba
• India Ireland
• Italy New Zealand
• Norway Scotland
• Sweden Uganda

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What a SmokeFreeOhio includes

• It protects everyones right to breathe clean
  indoor air in public places and at work.
• It includes all public places and workplaces in
  Ohio.

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How will a SmokeFreeOhio happen?

• SmokeFreeOhio is collecting the signatures of
  100,000 Ohio voters in 2005.
• State lawmakers will consider the bill in January
  2006.
• If they do not pass it in four months,
  SmokeFreeOhio will collect another 100,000
  signatures.
• Then, SmokeFreeOhio will be on the ballot in
  November of 2006.

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We need your help!

• What you can do to help SmokeFreeOhio be
  successful
• Sign our petition
• Collect signatures
• Volunteer
• Tell your friends
• Sign-up for email news alerts
• Write a letter to the editor
• Get your organization involved
• Display a sign
• Make a donation

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Remember

• Everyone has the right to breathe clean air in
  public places and at work.
• Secondhand smoke is a cause of serious health
  problems like cancer, heart disease, and lung
  disease.

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Remember

• Smoke-free policies allow kids, the elderly and
  people with health problems to enjoy public
  places.
• The American Cancer Society, American Lung
  Association and American Heart Association
  support smoke-free public places because they
  protect people from secondhand smoke.

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Contact Us

• www.SmokeFreeOhio.org
• 1-888-ACS-OHIO
• contact_at_SmokeFreeOhio.org