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. community has done. Regulations at Beall Hall at the University protect the paintings by limiting smoking to the outdoors. She has difficulty with fifty percent of the area allowing smoking, as this might mean there would not be a non-smoking area since the smoke from one area would go to the other section. She would encourage that this be taken into consideration with the ordinance. She feels this is the first step toward a cleaner environment. Trig Kjelland, 26~1 Newcastle, is in favor of the ordinance. He lost his voice box because oT smoklng cigarettes and has worked for 14 years with the Cancer Society explaining the hazards to youth allover the state. He related his experience. He also teaches others to talk again after losing their larynx. James Lanz, R.N., 934 Washington, nurse, stated that ample medical opinions have already been stated regardlng the dangers of breathing smoke from smokers. The ordinance might not ~e necessary if business managers ensured others would not have to breathe smoke, but this has not happened so he urged the council to support the ordinance without further deletions. He is disturbed when he has to breathe smoke, but there are only three options: to breathe the smoke, to leave, or not to go out. He is pleased that food stores and laundromats are included in the ordinance. In regard to the 50 percent rule, if the room is small and 50 percent of the area is set aside for smoking, smoke can go through the whole room. He feels small areas should be either all smoking or all non-smoking. This is a public health problem. . ~l Zarth, 4315 Hilyard, stated that cigarette smoke is a poison and is pois- onous to those who breathe it. It is unconscionable. He feels that places for workers should be made reasonably free of smoke. Bob Gregg, waived his rights to testimony. Bruce ~nderson, 4240 Hilyar9, stated that he supports the proposal, but does not W1Sri to condemn smokers and smoking. Each group should be given a choice. Many polls show it is becoming more evident that Americans favor restrictions on smoking areas. The March 27, 1980, New, Enfland J9urnal of Medicine published a study by White and Froeb, which concludes hat people exposed to smoke in the work place over periods of 20 years or more have reduced small airways functions as measured in the lungs equal to smoking half a pack a day. The ordinance is a reasonable attempt at striking a balance. The cost of doing nothing must be compared with the cost of restricting. Not until 1920 did large numbers of people smoke in this country. The July 16, 1980, article in the Wall Street Journal shows that smoking causes more severe internal problems. Internal alr quality needs to be controlled. The ordinance is needed now and needs to be expanded in the future. It is time to take this step, and he suggested that the council pass this ordinance and review it in 12 months. He suggests staff get information from states which have enacted stricter ordinances than this one. It is necessary to speak out when it is time to make a change and this is part of what has made Eugene a worthwhile place to live. . MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 10, 1980 Page 9