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Wednesday, February 18, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Smoking battle ...
From page one
One of the aims of the organization, she said, is to try to convince businessmen that they may, in fact, be losing more money by allowing smoking because of merchandise damaged by burning or smoke damage and loss of business from nonsmokers.
"It's been a very slow process but I think they (businessmen) may be coming around," Jensen said. "I think people are getting used to complain, and that's a big help."
For an example of nearly ideal nonsmoking law, ant-smokers point to Mintzberg's advice.
The Clean Indoor Air Act, which went into effect Aug. 1, is a no-smoking statute that declares all indoor public places as off limits for smoking unless otherwise indicated. All the other states label their no-smoking areas.
RESTAURANTS, auditoriums, hospitals and similar buildings are all included. But restaurant owners there are reported to be required by law to provide that a place for nonsmokers be provided.
Despite the strict regulations, ways are being found to circumvent the law there. There have been reports of disruption and fraud within the section, beined led to a card table in the basement.
In Kansas, Bottle likes to point out that after his no-smoking bill was passed, his home town of Lawrence adopted a no-smoking policy in the city's meeting room.
AND INDEED the city does have such a policy but again, it's a fairly easy matter to change.
Attempted rape follows robbery of local woman
An unidentified man robbed and attempted to rape a Lawrence woman after breaking into her apartment early Saturday morning, Lawrence police reported.
The victim, a Watson library assistant, told police that the man entered her door and then walked into her bedroom and asked where she kept her money. She said the man took $4 out of her purse then demanded that she sexually assault him or he would rape her.
After 10 or 15 minutes, she said, the man appeared to be nerous verbs about how long he had stayed. He warned her not to call the police and then left, she said.
The man could be charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery or other offence.
At any of the longer city commission meetings, it isn't uncommon to see a city commissioner puffing on a pipe, usually joined by a reporter with a cigarette. The officer often extends to the city offstreet hallway, which adjoins one end of the meeting room.
From there, a smoker can legally puff away to his heart's content and listen to the meeting—while his smoke wafts into the meeting room.
Many places that might come under the law already have no smoking policies. The ban is now being lifted.
CATHERINE DANIELS, assistant to the director of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, which also serves as the agency's chief consumer officer. always had a policy of no smoking on buses.
"We get a lot of complaints whenwere someone does smoke, believe me," she
The Lawrence Bus Co., posts no smoking signs in all its buses, a spokesman said, but there is no effort to enforce them even if the laws were seen some complaints from non-smokers.
"As far as our company policy goes, we're not trying to restrict smoking," the spokesman said. "It's kind of up to the driver. We don't need to enforce it (the nosmoking law); we're not enforcement people."
Both GASP and the Northeast Kansas Lung Association in Kansas City, Kan., said they were hearing of an increasing number of officers' offices that carried no-smoking slogans.
A TELEPHONE SURVEY of 25 doctors in the Lawrence area indicated that 15 of the offices had no-smoking signs up. Only two of the offices had signs and signs because of the new no-smoking law.
"It was a personal thing," one nurse said. The doctor doesn't smoke and he doesn't drink alcohol.
Another nurse said, "The no-smoking signs are up here mainly because all of us here in the office are allergic to cigarette smoke, but there were a number of patients complaining about smoke. It was that and a combination of the new law."
A Kansas City City, nurse who works in an office for four doctors said that although there had been complaints about cigarette smoke, no-smoking signs weren't up in her office because one of the doctors was a heavy smoker.
"IVEY BEEN reluctant to press it very far," she said. "I just wish some of the patients would really start complaining and demanding something soon. Then maybe we'd get some action."
Most hospitals seem to have no smok- pollen of one sort or another chiefly in the southern United States.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine, has a no-smoking policy that forbids smoking in offices, elevators, corridors and rooms where patients receive oxygen. It also limits the number of dining areas. The KU Medical Center has a similar policy, but in addition, six tables in
the dining area have been marked off for non-smokers.
WATKINS MEMORIAL Hospital doesn't allow smoking anywhere, a spokesman
Spokesmen for the Wyandotte and Johnson county public libraries, as well as the Lawrence public library, said that most residents cannot be normal but enforced no-smoking policies.
THE UNIVERSITY has had a no-smoking policy for years, he said, but the policy was re-emphasized last fall, though not as a result of the Kansas no-smoking law.
Dal Shenkel, executive vice chancellor,
said the University policy on no-smoking
covered all classrooms, with the exception
of seminar groups of 20 or less when no one
Shankel said he had received only a few complaints, which were then handled by the appropriate dean or chairman of the department concerned. A substantial number of violations, he said, would force the University to try to tighten the policy.
Except for meeting rooms, all other
area areas are off limits to smoking,
their use prohibited.
Although the University no-smoking
Both K-Mart, 31st and Iowa, and Woolworth, 911 Massachusetts, have no smoking policies, mainly as safety precautions, their managers said.
"Most lobbies are big enough to allow non-smokers to get away from the smokers," said one. "After all, it's bad enough that they can't smoke in the auditorium. I don't see how we could stop them from smoking in the lobby."
JOSE PEREZ, assistant manager of Montgomery Ward, 23rd and Odaiah, says he is hesitant to put up no-smoking signs in his office because of the business away because they smoke."
policy extends to the library, John Glinka, associate director of the library, said the wet reading room had been opened for those who liked to smoke when they studied.
Do smokers take advantage of the theaterobbies?
All theater auditoriums in Kansas City and Lawrence have no-smoking signs posted. But in the lobby it's "smoke em" if you've got em." Most representatives of the theater groups expressed a reluctance to mark the lobby as a no-smoking area.
"They smoke like fiends," one theater group representative said with a laug.
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The African Student Association of the University of Kansas Presents The Second Annual
Feb. 21, 1976
6:00-9:00 p.m.
At Westminster Foundation, 1204 Oread
$3.50 Single Adult
$1.50 Children 12 & Under
Tickets on Sale
SUA Office--Kansas Union
African Studies----116 Strong Hall
K.U. African Club Members
African night disco will be in Big 8 Room Kansas Union at 9:30 p.m., same date Sponsored by International Club The International Club is funded from the Student Activity
Place a Konsan wont od Cal 864-4358