Sick or secondhand smoke issues???
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I still can't figure out if I am sick or it's the smoke. Been some time since I worked in a smokey club.
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Maybe some enterprising attorney might sue and make a claim about creating a hazardous workplace. What do you think JS69 or Skibum;)
There are plenty of states with smoking bans. As of this past summer, I know there were 28 states with state-wide smoking bands, including MI.
And yes blahblah, if you haven't been around cigarettes and work in a club with tons of smoking going on, you are likely to feel a little sick after (a sore throat, cough, etc). But there is also a weather change going on, which could be causing you allergies, as well as the fact it's Oct and a lot of people are getting colds.
I hate cigarette smoke. A friend of mine was chain smoking cigs in his car for apparently forever and when I got in the car I almost threw up because it was so nauseating. And it was all rainy so I couldn't roll the windows down to air it out. It was disgusting. I don't allow cigs to be smoked in my car, except for special circumstances (my mom is allowed to because she's my mom).
Usually after I have been out among people and secondhand smoke or cold viruses, I find my health and well being stays high when I can remove those contaminants daily as soon I as get back home. Often from Oct to Apr I use a Neti Pot to flush out my nasal cavities. Iâm not sure if youâre willing or even want to use one. Or if you even want to buy it since you are on the road traveling.
Like this:
https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/neilmeâŚ
https://www.walmart.com/ip/NeilMed-NasaFâŚ
If nothing it gets all of the boogers out of your nose from all of the secondhand smoke. It sounds like something grandpa and grandma or your crazy uncle whoâs into homeopathic medicine would use. But I swear it works! The first time you use it â it sort of feels like youâre water boarding yourself. Though if you use it right, it doesnât feel like drowning. The water flows in one nostril, up into your head, and out your other nostril. You can breath normally through your mouth while youâre doing it. If itâs running down your throat, you need to tilt your head slightly forward and to the side more I kneel over a sink or bath tub.
Youâll also want to pick up a gallon jug of distilled water. You donât want to use tap water with this (you make a salt solution, the kit contains salt packets). Otherwise youâre removing impurities but then youâre leaving any impurities in the tap water inside your head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_irriâŚ
Nothing I said was wrong, skibum. I spoke facts about smoke-ban laws.
With regard to what you said, "I don't do that type of law, but I believe business owners have a right to allow smoking and the State has no business in regulating it." <--- for a lawyer who wants to tell me I'm wrong when I'm correct, you should word your thoughts better because saying something is not your specialty in law and then proceeding to talk about said specialty in law sure made it look like you were trying to say that that is how you interpret smoke-ban laws. You didn't say you believe that business owners *should* have a right to allow smoking, you said you believe they *do*.
But ok. Lol.
^For a lawyer who wants to tell me I'm wrong when I'm correct, you should word your thoughts better because saying something is not your specialty in law and then proceeding to talk about said specialty in law sure made it look like you were trying to say that that is how you interpret smoke-ban laws. You didn't say you believe that business owners *should* have a right to allow smoking, you said you believe they *do*.
But ok. Lol.
And I can even say anecdotally that Teen Age culture seems to be changing. At least for the well off suburban kids who are in school and get along with their parents, there has been a huge drop in recent years. It is very visible.
SJG
As for marijuana, that is likely just as bad as tobacco. I am opposed to it. But criminalization is not the best way to deal with it. We have extended our clean air protections to include that, and also vapes.
SJG
Generally, at this time of year, I would get a bad bad bad sinus infection. It has something to do with the allergens going on out there, plus the people I meet at the beginning of the new school year, plus my own weak sinus arrangement, plus of course the pipe smoking. I have found that since the smoking ban, which therefore has reduced my tobacco smoking AND my contact with second-hand smoke, I have experienced ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE in my level of sinus infection sickness annually.
Anecdotally speaking, smoke had nothing at all to do with it. That's my experience thus far. (OH, and, FYI, may be germane, I don't smoke marijuana at all, it makes me antsy so I don't like it; nor any other smoke-type products other than store-bought or internet-ordered "fancy" pipe tobacco.)