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Bredesen: Ban smoking at work
Publication Date: 2007-02-09
- Author:SHEILA BURKE and JOHN BOAN
- Publication:The Tennessean
Some Tennesseans greeted Gov. Phil Bredesen's call Thursday night for a ban on smoking in Tennessee workplaces as long overdue, while others perceived it as a needless intrusion of government.
One organization that promotes the health of Tennesseans quickly got behind the ban, which Bredesen proposed in a speech Thursday night to the Tennessee Press Association.
"We support it," said Shelby Logsdon, executive director of The Campaign for a Healthy and Responsible Tennessee. "There are 21 states with workplace smoking bans, and it's about time Tennessee followed suit."...
Bredesen told a group of about 100 newspaper publishers, editors and reporters
at a downtown Nashville hotel that "every Tennessean deserves — frankly
every one of us has,
I think, the right — to go to work, to earn a paycheck, to eat a meal,
to provide for our families, without risking our health in the process. All
workers have the right to breathe clean air."