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SUBCOMMITTEE ON AVIATION HEARING ON LEGISLATION TO BAN SMOKING ON AIRLINE AIRCRAFT
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Ms. Susan Bianchi Sand Ms. Karen Thorensen President Representative Association of Flight Attendants Association of Flight Attendants Mr. Geoffrey H Lipman Executive Director International Foundation of Airline Passenger Associations T 0045 1330 2 Mr.
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- Box
- 5617. Miscellaneous Issue Material
- Airline Smoking Ban 88
- DOT Appropriations Bill
- NYSA numbers
- 0044 B1793 02C
- Type
- Report
- Named Person
- Bates, Jim
- Bianchi, Susan
- Cherner, Joseph
- Crouse, William E
- Dornan, Robert K
- Durbin, Richard J
- Fulton, H B
- Holcomb, Larry C
- Lautenberg, Frank R
- Lee, J D
- Leichtman, Ahron
- Lipman, Geoffrey H
- Martin, Mel
- Mcgrath, John J
- Morrow Donley, Anne
- Norm Y
- Oberstar, James L
- Rayburn
- Reynolds, Patrick
- Samet, Jonathan M
- Scheuer, H
- Scocozza, Matthew V
- Thorensen President, Karen
- Torricelli, Robert G
- Whitley, Charles O
- Named Organization
- American Medical Association
- Association For Respiratory Care
- Association Of Flight Attendants
- Association Tobacco
- Consultant Tobacco Institute
- Department Of Medicine
- Executive Director International Foundation Of Airline Passenger Associations
- Holcomb Environmental Services
- Lorillard Inc
- Policy And International Affairs Department Of Transportation
- Tobacco Institute
- University Of New Mexico Schoolof Medicine
- Thesaurus Term
- airplane
- legislation
- smoking restriction
- Congress
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SUBCOMMITTEE ON A~IATION
HEARING ON
LEGISLATION TO BAN SMOKING ON AIRLINE AIRCRAFT
10:00 A.M.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1987
2167 RAYBURN HOUSE.0FFICE BUILDING
AGENDA
Honorable Frank R. Lautenberg
United States Senator, New Jersey
Honorable James-H. Scheuer
8th District, New York
Honorable Robert G. Torr~icelli
9th District, New Jersey
Honorable Richard J. Durbin
20th District, Illinois
Honorable James L. Oberstar
8th District, Minnesota
Honorable Robert K. Dornan
38th District, California
Honorable Jim Bates
44th District, California
Mr. Matthew V. Scocozza
Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs
Department of Transportation
Ms. Susan Bianchi-Sand Ms. Karen
Thorensen
President Representative
Association of Flight Attendants Association of Flight
Attendants
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Mr. Geoffrey H. Lipman
Executive Director
International Foundation of Airline Passenger Associations
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Mr. Ahron Leichtman
President
Citizens Against Tobacco Smoke
Ms. Anne Morrow Donley
Executive birector
virginia Group to Alleviate Smoking
in Public
Mr. H. B. Fulton, Jr.
Marietta, Georgia
Mr. Patrick Reynolds
Member, Honorary Board
Americans for Nonsmokers'
Rights
Mr. J. D. Lee
Chairman
American Trial Lawyers
Association
Tobacco Litigation Group
Mr. Joseph Cherner
New York, New York
John J. McGrath, M.D.
Member, Council on Legislation
American Medical Association
Jonathan M. Samet, M.D.
Department of Medicine
University of New Mexico Schoolof Medicine
On behalf of Coalition on Smoking or Health
Mr. Mel Martin
President
~erican Association for Respiratory Care
Honorable Charles O. Whitley
Consultant
Tobacco Institute
Dr. William E. Crouse
Senior Researgh Chemist
Lorillard, Inc.
Dr. Larry C. Holcomb
President
Holcomb Environmental Services
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OPENING STATEMENT-OF HONORABLE NORM~ Y, MINETA
OCTOBER 7, 1987
THE SUBCOMMITTEE WILL COME TO ORDER,
TODAY WE ARE HOLDING A HEARING ON LEGISLATION TO BAN
SMOKING ON AIRLINE AIRCRAFT, THERE HAVE BEEN SIX BILLS
INTRODUCED ON THE SUBJECT~ A PROVISION OF THE FY 1988
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS BILL ADOPTED BY
THE HOUSE WOULD ESTABLISH A BAN ON FL ]GHTS OF TWO HOURS OR
LESS, THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HAS ALSO MARKED
UP LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH. A SMOKING BAN ON FLIGHTS OF TWO
HOURS OR LESS,
SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES~ IVHETHER IT BE IN OFFICES,
RESTAURANTS, OR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, IS A CONTENTIOUS
ISSUE, IT IS A POLARIZING ISSUE THAT DOES NOT LEND ITSELF TO
RESOLUTIONS THAT EQUALLY MEET Ei/ERYONEeS SATISFACTION, BOTH
SIDES FEEL THAT THEY gILL BE VERY PUT UPON IF PUBLIC POLICY
TAKES A CERTAIN COURSE, IT IS FOR THIS 'REASON THAT THIS
ISSUE HAS BEEN WITH US FOR A GOOD NUMBER OF YEARS,
I PERSONALLY BELIEVE SOME FURTHER REGULATION TO LIMIT
SMOKING ON AIRCRAFT IS NEEDED, I HAVE "NOT TAKEN A POSITION
ON ANY OF THE SPECIFIC LEGISLATION BEFORE US, I" DID VOT'E
AGAINST CONGRESSMAN DURBIN'S AMENDMENT "IN JULY ON THE HOUSE
FLOOR BECAUSE THE APPROACH IN THAT AMENDMENT PRESENTS A VERY
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CONVOLUTED~ AND I BELIEVE UNWORKABLE, MEANS OF ADDRESSING THE
PROBLEM AND ENFORCING A SMOKING BAN, HR, DURBIN'S AHENDHENT
ALSO VIOLATES THE USUAL CONGRESSIONAL HEARING AND
AUTHORIZATION PROCESS AND [ BELIEVE ITS CONTENT REFLECTS
THAT,. HAV|NG SAiD THIS~ [ MUST ALSO IND]CATE MY SUPPORT FOR
MR, DUR]~[N~'S INTENT AS WELL AS THE INTENT OF THE OTHER
LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS.
] WILL HAVE QUESTIONS .OF ALL THE W]TNESSESs iNCLUDING
THE SPONSORS OF LEGiSLATiON, ABOUT HOW THEIR PROPOSALS WOULD
BE PRACTICALLY [MPLEMENTED AND WHETHER THERE ARE iNADVERTENT
CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR LEGISLATION WHICH ARE NEGATIVE, I WILL
NOT BE ASKING THESE QUESTIONS TO MERELY SHOOT HOLES IN THE
PROPOSALS; RATHER WE NEED TO FIND GOOD, WORKABLE i~AYS TO
ADDRESS THE, REGULATION OF SMOKING ON AIRLINE AIRCRAFT,
I LOOK FORWARD TO THE TESTIMONY OF ALL OF OUR WITNESSES,
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