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I I Page 22 LEVEL 1 - 25 OF 47 STORIES I I I I I ~ I I I I I I I I I I Copyright 1995 Information Access Company, a Thomson Corporation Company ASAP Copyright 1995 Lebhar-Friedman Inc. Nation's Restaurant News December 11, 1995 SECTION: Vol. 29 ; No. 49 ; Pg. 2; ISSN: 0028-0518 LENGTH: 213 words HEADLINE: NRA backs report questioning EPA smoking study.National Restaurant Association; Brief Article BODY: WASHINGTON - The National Restaurant Association applauded a recent report by the Congressional Research Service that questions the findings of the 1993 Environmental Protection Agency report labeling secondhand smoke as a dangerous carcinogen. Citing several sources of uncertainty affecting the EPA study, the nonpartisan adjunct of Congress said more data were needed before concluding that workers exposed to secondhand smoke would be at increased risk for lung cancer. The report's findings are significant in influencing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's efforts to promulgate indoor-air quality regulations that would ban smoking in all workplaces based on the EPA's earlier findings. "We recognize that no risk analysis will ever satisfy the proponents on either. side of this issue," NRA president Ralph O. Brennan said. "However, without scientific research the restaurant industry can take no position on the question of safety or hazard of environmental tobacco smokel." In August 1994 the NRA filed 25 pages of comments with OSHA, pointing out that no scientific consensus existed on the effects of secondhand smoke, and that market forces - not government - should dictate where smoking is allowed and where it is banned. SIC: 5812 Eating places IAC-NUMBER: IAC 17847110 IAC-CLASS: Health; Trade & Industry LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: January 10, 1996