Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2000 local Ais Wayne free press Repace says Clearing secondhand smoke from Public places would require literally blowing air in patrons expert deflates argument that ventilation system could prevent smoking ban smoke gets in your eyes or else a big wind will by Bud Robertson ventilation systems could Clear secondhand cigarette smoke put of bars and restaurants before anyone inhales it if customers dont mind Gal Force winds blowing in their says an expert on indoor air poll James a health physicist and former scientist with the United states environmental Protection was invited to Winnipeg by the Manitoba medical association to pre sent his research on pollution caused by tobacco smoke at a Public lecture yesterday at Boniface general Hospital research he has published 50 scientific papers on the the Mma is lobbying the City to ban smoking in All indoor Public including restaurants and minimizing the risk of breathing in toxic chemicals and carcinogens wafting from a cigarette would require thou Sands of air exchanges an hour and extremely High Levels of air said who now works As an Independent con that he adding such a system would take up an entire ceiling health Canada notes that at an average ventilation rate of one air Exchange per it takes three hours to remove 95 per cent of the smoke from a single cigarette and the remaining five per cent can still be the City of Winnipeg is currently studying the idea of ban Ning smoking in indoor Public places frequented by children such As Community clubs and Bowling the Community services department is expected to report to Council in the Legal services depart ment is drafting a smoking bylaw to be forwarded to Council in the new this the executive policy committee requested information on the merits of allowing smoking in bars that install advanced air filtration and ventilation Mark chairman of the Mas Public health issues said that one reason Repace was invited to speak to City officials and members of the medical Community Dur ing his visit to secondhand smoke has been linked to heart Dis ease and and that plenty of reason for nonsmokers to applaud a ban on smoking in Public it sounds Good to said 33yearold Cheryl Seebald As she ate lunch in the nonsmoking Section of a mall food asthma runs in her she adding she has even More reason not to be around secondhand being i dont want to breathe it Grant Anderson said he Doest want to be around smok while Hes enjoying a i go out of my Way to stay away from secondhand said the 45yearold production Anderson added that if he was a bar he probably be so anxious to ban Repace said the idea that smoking bans kill sales is a California banned smoking in restaurants in expand ing it to include bars in despite an initial 30 per cent drop in restaurant it rebounded and sales Are now up by the same he they customers came Back in in said a Survey of California bar patrons con ducted two years ago found that 73 per cent preferred a non smoking atmosphere and Many of those surveyed were Jim spokesman for a coalition of Manitoba restaurant and hotel int convinced by replaces argue he believes there Are ventilation systems available that will Clear the air for both customers and and he said that instead of being allowed to take an Active role in finding a solution that will meet everyone were too Busy fighting a draconian such As a that imposes immediate economic the Manitoba government banned smoking in All shopping with the exception of designated areas in food about 10 years about 64 cities and towns in Canada have full or partial smoking bans in indoor Public Levis metro fit but not Christmas hours downtown vital from Clear Lake to Lake of the Woods stories by Christopher Charles Ingeborg Janis Steven Allan and governor general award nominees Martha Brooks and Duncan full Colour hardcover Only great calling All artists were looking for drawings of Reindeer and 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