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...April 3 a new era began in Beverly Hills: smoking was banned in restaurants and retail stores. Three weeks later many cigarettes remain unlit but scorched tempers are flaring. In cafes and restaurants throughout this clean, orderly city, known for its per capita wealth and celebrity residents, vociferous smokers are shrieking that the new ordinance is fascist, Communist and tyrannical. "It's the People's Republic of Beverly Hills," fumes Irene Robbins, a bookkeeper for the Mandarin, a Chinese restaurant one block from Rodeo Drive. "The smog is ten times worse than anything you're going to breathe sitting through...
Even if the Cambridge law goes largely unenforced on campus, it is bound to have a positive impact. At the very least, non-smokers probably will feel a little less uncomfortable about asking smokers to snuff out cigarettes. Thanks to the ordinance, the College now will relocate the smoker--and not the offended suite mate--when smoking disrupts a rooming group...
...offices, as well as in taxis and limousines. Restaurants with seating for more than 50 customers will have to provide a no-smoking area of up to 70% of capacity. (Bars, however, can retain their smoky ambience.) Says Council Chairman Morton P. Hyman, a reformed two-pack-a-day smoker: "We hope to save lives...
...year-old chain-smoker has appeared in movies including "Ghostbusters," writes a weekly column for USA Today and hosts "Larry King Live" on the Cable News Network in addition to his 4-hour nightly stint on the radio...
...clear that disease risk due to inhalation of tobacco smoke is not solely limited to the individual who is smoking," said Koop, who recently had a cervical disk removed and wore a massive neck brace as he announced the study. "The right of the smoker to smoke stops at the point where his or her smoking increases the disease risk of those occupying the same environment." While no hard estimate of the number of lung cancers or other diseases caused by involuntary smoking is yet available, the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be responsible...