• -70,000 people said they wanted a ventilation option in B.C. They
still passed the draconian non smoking bylaw
• Bingo's in B.C. lost 5 million in 80 days of smoking ban - pubco
• B.C. Workmen's Compensation& insurance board lost in court, and
has to allow for a ventilation option in bars
• - 75% of people in Ottawa asked for smoking rooms, and were denied
the opportunity
• Peach stones, cherry and cherry laurel leaves and sorghum contain
hydrogen cyanide.
A cup of coffee contains 10 carcinogens, and 5,000 chemicals
It would take300 people smoking 62 packs per hour in a sealed 8 x 12
foot room to reach min. accepted danger level
• Health Canada in 1999 didn't think that ventilation in bars was
their jurisdiction-blackdog study
• An Environmental Protection agency report was found to be
fraudulent in its methods by a judge William L. Osteen.
• The 66 new grants to leading researchers across the country bring
its total investment in cancer research this year to $47 million. .May
9/04
• In 1998 76 facilities released 2,773,460 pounds of hydrogen cyanide
in the U.S. One Cigarette emits .26 milligrams to non smokers
• It is the amount that is the danger, not the fact that it occurs.
Everything has risks.
• It would take 25% of Canada to smoke 20 million cigarettes every
day to equal what is safely emitted by those 76 facilities
• Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan went so far as to say: "The
notion of state-imposed, third-party counseling as if we are children,
as if we are not able to make our own decisions about our health and
our bodies, is to me, at the beginning of the 21st century, profoundly
disturbing and, dare I say it, very frightening." G&mail June 9/04
• 9 out of 10 life-long smokers don't die before the age of 75 from a
smoking-related disease
• Space heaters and gas ranges release 20,000 - 40,000 micrograms
Formaldehyde per hour. The official "safe" level is 1,500
ug/m^3.-source-Jerimiah project
• A 200 gram serving of fish such as sole may contain up to .0018 grams
of arsenic, as much as that ingested in the smoke from nearly 3,000
packages of cigarettes.
-The marble and granite US Capitol and Library of Congress buildings
give off natural radiation at a level 65 times higher than the
Environmental Protection Agency?s (EPA) safe limits, according to a
research report commissioned by the website JunkScience.com
• According to the Canadian Cancer Society, about five percent of
cancers can be directly linked to environmental contaminants. That's
about 6,400 cases across the country each year.
• Ontario Medical Association position Paper (uses 1992 report for
evidence)
• In the mid-1990's, HAQI studied the sources and impacts of air
pollution in the Hamilton area and found that as
much as 70% of the airborne inhalable and respirable particulates come
from sources outside the community.
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