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Ohio gets failing grades for controlling smoking
TweetPublished: Thu, January 26, 2012 @ 2:44 p.m.
COLUMBUS — The head of the Mahoning County District Board of Health is not surprised that Ohio received failing grades for its efforts to control smoking.
And health Commissioner Matthew Stefanak said he also is not surprised the state got an “A” for having smoke-free air in public places.
The state has had a ban on smoking in most indoor places since 2007, which Stefanak said is one of the most comprehensive in the country.
In most Ohio communities, including Mahoning County, he said the public health department is the enforcement agency.
“We are still vigorously enforcing the smoking ban law and we’re getting good compliance. The number of complaints have dwindled,” he said.
For the complete story, read Friday's Vindicator and Vindy.com
Comments
When you smoke, you are announcing to the world that you are 100% S T U P I D! Think...you work for decades, followed by a doctor explaining you have cancer & have 6 months to live with a horribly painful death AND all the money you saved from decades of working will go to that doctor & a hospital. YOU WORKED FOR THE TOBACCO COMPANIES, the doctor & the hospital, fool! FOOL! YOU WERE USED & YOUR LIFE IS A WASTE!
Guess what Superstar, smoking is still legal. What do you care if someone wants to smoke. Get a life!!!!
It's legal at Cardinal Mooney.
TO Pussycat:
The morons that are still too ignorant to quit & live...what do I care, you ask? IF you had a career & paid taxes, you would understand that smoker's diseases are costing America BILLIONS more than the smokers insurance and co-pays cover. Smokers cost all Americans BILLIONS, lost due to the affects of many diseases, not even including all the other cost associated with their mentally disturbed smoking drug addiction. Yes, it is a mental disturbance addiction, and it is suicide.
Oh yes; how quickly you all forget. We "had" money set aside for smoking cessation and tobacco prevention. Back in 2008, then Gov. Ted Strickland and some other lawmakers took all ( and I mean....ALL) that money. As I recall; Teddy took the money and said he was going to use it to create 72,000 jobs in Ohio. (you have one of those jobs don't you?)
From the article, "Report: Ohio failing in tobacco control", written by Misti Crane; "Advocates who work to lower smoking rates have decried efforts in Ohio since 2008, when then-Gov. Ted Strickland and lawmakers took most of the state’s Tobacco Prevention Foundation money to use for other things'.
So that is where that money went to and the Federal government is not footing the bill.
If everyone quit smoking and 1/4 of the population lives 15 more years what kind of shape would SS and Medicare be in.
The high health care costs are from the people that took good care of themselves and made it into their 80's and 90's. Their medical expenses are much higher in the last 6 months of life than the cost of a smokers last illness.
What would replace the taxes paid by smokers? What jobs would replace the workers in an entire industry?
I am not trying to defend smoking, but don't make it more than it is. There are many worse things financially such as illegitimacy and reckless driving.
Superstar,
What's next ? The smoker quits, obesity kicks in...another health risk. Obesity in America results in Billions of Dollars in healthcare...heart, stroke, and cancer!
> > The smoker quits, obesity kicks in < <
Good point, Superstar, keep them smoking and thin.
One of my better investments was in Phillip Morris back in the days when trial lawyers and state attorneys general were tripping all over themselves to "punish" the tobacco industry.
In reality it was only a backhanded tax/money grab. As pointed out in other posts here, little of the money extorted from the industry has gone to "smoking cessation" programs.