> Please explain why smoking rooms, that would insure that > non-smokers are not exposed, are not a reasonable compromise. > > Michael Atherton > Prospect Park
Because someone would have to clean those rooms and serve in those rooms. 14 years ago when I was driving for Airport Cab, one of our popular pickups was the VA Hospital--the new one--and just outside the doors was a room that looked like a glorified bus stop that served as the smoking area. It was surrounded by plexiglass walls and three or four roof panels in the shape of a pyramid. For the first six months I serviced calls there I thought that they had installed some kind of UV protected glass since it had this uniformly yellow tinge to it. Then one day I drove up and noticed that two and a half of the ceiling pyramids were CLEAR and somebody was inside with a pressurized steam cleaning system blasting the walls and ceiling. All that yellow coloring was tar and nicotine that had been deposited by this "non-harmful" second hand smoke. Hotels and motels were very happy when the smoking bans were introduced because they KNEW the expense of cleaning drapes and carpets and walls after people had been smoking in their rooms. Marijuana is banned yet people seem to find ways to get around that and smoke--just not in public places. And alcohol--which is legal--can be consumed in public in far fewer places than smoking is allowed. Where is the outcry for drinking rooms at work or drinking areas outside the office doors for a quick beer? Nobody would suffer from second hand drink either! Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
