`Rokers zijn ook gewaardeerde gasten`
In een ingezonden brief reageert Audrey Silk, oprichter van NYC CLASH (zusterorganisatie van Forces), op aantijgingen uit het anti-rokerskamp als zouden de rookverboden geen financiëel effect hebben op bars en restaurants.
As a smoker I have not and will not patronize any establishment that doesn’t allow smoking. I have not been to a movie in at least a decade since smoking was banned in theaters. It’s not out of the inability to smoke. It’s out of principle. If I exist, there are others who feel the same.
I suppose people who don’t like the kind of music being played inside a bar can lobby for a law that dictates exactly what kind of music will be played according to their customers’ personal tastes.
Audrey gaat in het artikel in op de waarde van de epidemiologische onderzoeken rond roken en meeroken:
The science alone (epidemiology) used to study secondhand smoke is not a science of proof. The impartial Statistical Assessment Service describes it best: “Epidemiology, the science of looking for risk factors by comparing populations, is never able to establish “causation” in either direction. All that it can show is ‘association,’ a much-misunderstood term.”
