Indianapolis Smoking Ban Fight Goes To Court Wednesday

The upcoming cases in Indianapolis and Evansville are another waste of the taxpayer’s dollars.  

Smokefree ordinances have stood up to every constitutional challenge throughout the entire country for good reason. These ordinances were a result of local and state legislatures which are not beholden to the tobacco industry and have carried out their responsibilities to protect the health and safety of their constituents.

In other words, they were doing their job! Indiana has been a steady tobacco industry stronghold, the last bastion in the Midwestern states, so it is understandable why they are relentless in fighting the change.

The justification for the statewide ban is whats on trial and it has been before in Federal court where it was tossed as JUNK SCIENCE!A law while duly enacted maybe legal,but when fraud was perpetuated to bring about the law along with Illegal Lobbying thru non-profit Federal Grants and 501-3c tax excempt status groups we find a whole history of fraudulent acts that created a law! This is what is being investigated in Washington DC by the Inspector Generals office and has already found mass illegal acts in the grant lobbying laws of many of these groups nationwide who pushed the smokefree law thru in Indiana.Forth comming Federal Indictments will be the wave of the future as these smokefree pundits are brought to justice!

OSHA / NIOSH RESEARCH
In 1991 NIOSH { OSHA’ research group} Looked into ETS although at the time they recommended reducing ETS exposure they found the studies lacking.
NIOSH recognizes that these recent epidemiological studies have several shortcomings: lack of objective measures for charachterizing and quantifying exposures,failures to adjust for all confounding variables,potential misclassification of ex-smokers as non-smokers,unavailability of comparison groups that have not been exposed to ETS, and low statistical power.
Research is needed to investigate the following issues:
1. More acurate quantification of the increased risk of lung cancer associated with ETS exposure,including determination of other contributing factors[e.g.,occupational exposures]that may accentuate the risk.
2.Determination of the concentration and distributuion of ETS components in the workplace to help quantify the risk for the U.S. working population.
a.The association of ETS exposure with cancer other than lung cancerb.The relationship between ETS exposure and cardiovascular diseasec.The relationship between ETS exposure and nonmalignant resporatory diseases such asthma,bronchitis and emphysema, andthe effects of ETS on lung function and respiratory systemsc. Possible mechanisms of ETS damage to the cardiovascular system,such as platelet aggravation,increased COHb leading to oxygen depravation,or damage to endotheliumd.Effects of workplace smoking restrictions on the ETS exposure of nonsmokersand ETS-related health effects in nonsmokers
After ten years of no conclusive research and lack of studies that didn’t eliminate the bias OSHA decided that the studies did not have substance and here is there present policy.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Because the organic material in tobacco doesn’t burn completely, cigarette smoke contains more than 4,700 chemical compounds. Although OSHA has no regulation that addresses tobacco smoke as a whole, 29 CFR 1910.1000 Air contaminants, limits employee exposure to several of the main chemical components found in tobacco smoke. In normal situations, exposures would not exceed these permissible exposure limits (PELs), and, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, OSHA will not apply the General Duty Clause to ETS.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

2.Determination of the concentration and distributuion of ETS components in the workplace to help quantify the risk for the U.S. working population.
a.The association of ETS exposure with cancer other than lung cancerb.The relationship between ETS exposure and cardiovascular diseasec.The relationship between ETS exposure and nonmalignant resporatory diseases such asthma,bronchitis and emphysema, andthe effects of ETS on lung function and respiratory systemsc. Possible mechanisms of ETS damage to the cardiovascular system,such as platelet aggravation,increased COHb leading to oxygen depravation,or damage to endotheliumd.Effects of workplace smoking restrictions on the ETS exposure of nonsmokersand ETS-related health effects in nonsmokers
 
After ten years of no conclusive research and lack of studies that didn’t eliminate the bias OSHA decided that the studies did not have substance and here is there present policy.
 
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Because the organic material in tobacco doesn’t burn completely, cigarette smoke contains more than 4,700 chemical compounds. Although OSHA has no regulation that addresses tobacco smoke as a whole, 29 CFR 1910.1000 Air contaminants, limits employee exposure to several of the main chemical components found in tobacco smoke. In normal situations, exposures would not exceed these permissible exposure limits (PELs), and, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, OSHA will not apply the General Duty Clause to ETS.