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A woman in her late teens died from an acute asthma attack triggered by secondhand cigarette smoke shortly after arriving at her job as a waitress in a bar in Michigan, researchers reported on Friday.

Okay, here's your first clue--if you have asthma, a bar is probably not a good workplace for you.
And, uh, isn't it illegal for underage kids to work in an environment where alcohol is served?

They said it was the first reported case of an immediate death caused by secondhand smoke.

“She didn’t have any other possible known causes of death,” said Dr. Kenneth Rosenman, a Michigan State University professor who oversees three state public health surveillance systems.

No other causes but the ASTHMA.

Cigarette smoke is known to trigger acute asthma attacks.

THEN WHY WORK IN A BAR WHERE SMOKING IS ALLOWED?

“We know that particulate levels from secondhand cigarette smoke in bars like this reach sufficient levels to set off an asthma attack,” Rosenman said.

THEN WHY WORK IN A BAR WHERE SMOKING IS ALLOWED? Whose fault is that? The smokers? The bar? The state? Uh, no, it's the fault of the dead chick.

He said the woman was a student who had a job at a fast-food restaurant, and worked a second job as a waitress at the bar. “She was perfectly fine when she went to work,” Rosenman said in a telephone interview.

PERFECTLY FINE EXCEPT FOR THE ASTHMA...and the probably obesity she suffered at the hands of all the evil fast food she most likely ate. She probably absorbed a lot of second-hand lipids at her other job.

“After about 15 minutes, she had an acute asthma attack and collapsed on the floor. The autopsy clearly indicates she died from asthma,” said Rosenman,

Then why is PMSNBC and Reuters--under the thin guise of some imaginary "researchers" trying to blame this woman's death on second-hand smoke?

Rosenman said the woman had asthma since age 2. Her asthma was poorly controlled. She had made four visits to her doctor in the year before her death for flare-ups, and had been treated in a hospital emergency department two to three times that year.

So that's 6 to 7 visits--she made so many they actually lost count--in one year...for asthma, not second-hand smoke syndrome.

SO WHY DOES THE HEADLINE OF THIS ARTICLE SCREAM: AHHHHHHH, SECOND-HAND SMOKE WILL KILL YA, I SEZ.

Although she had prescriptions for an assortment of drugs to prevent and treat asthma attacks, she was reported to only use them when she was having breathing difficulty.

No way, it wasn't patient negligence--it was second-hand smoke...some "researchers" said so!

On the evening of her death, she had no inhaler with her. When she became sick, she told the bar manager she needed to go to the hospital, then collapsed on the dance floor.

See, other people were dancing in this awful haze of second-hand smoke--and presumably raising their heart rates in the process--AND THEY AREN'T DEAD.

Rosenman, who wrote about the case in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, said 24 U.S. states prohibit smoking in public places such as bars. A number of other states, including Michigan, are considering it.

Yep, by God, let's curtail the rights of people who want to smoke because some dolt who can't take their own fucking medicine and shouldn't be working in such an environment anyway, dies as a result.

This is as intelligent as banning school buses because one school bus driver who was a well-known drunk and had been arrested 6 to 7 times last year for drunk driving, drove a bunch of kids off a cliff, while drunk.

He said a smoking ban could prevent future deaths.

No, motherfucker, banning asthmatics from smoky bars would though.

“There are a lot of statistics out there about secondhand smoke. Here is a human face.

Except she's not a human face. Because, you know, we can't see her in the article and um, she isn't named. She's probably not even real.

She died acutely. It is a tragic death,” Rosenman said.

Every death is a tragedy, every million deaths is a statistic...sorry, went all Stalin on ya there.

No, she died because she was asthmatic, didn't medicate, didn't bring her inhalers and shouldn't have been working in a smoke-filled bar, you lying sack of fucking dogshit with an agenda.

In another article, Rosenman says:

“As a consumer, I don’t have to go into that bar,” he said.

And you know, it's nice to have that CHOICE, isn't it?

“But is it a safe environment for the employees?

It is if you don't have acute, terminal-stage asthma, apparently.

We have federal laws that say employers have to provide a safe and healthy workplace. This was clearly not a safe and healthy workplace for this employee.

Well, then she SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE THEN! And just because one broad is so stupid she ends up dead, does that mean THE STATE has to curtail the rights of millions?

I don't recall seeing the part where this broad was press-ganged and forced into servitude. Did she or did she not willingly apply to this job, get this job and then continue to show up for this job? And at any time did she tell the owners she had some sort of OBVIOUS FUCKING DISABILITY THAT MIGHT REQUIRE 6 OR 7 VISITS TO THE ER? I doubt it.

“This death dramatizes the need to enact legal protections for workers in the hospitality industry from secondhand smoke.”

Drama--that's the first true thing he has said in the article.

How about making bar employees wear a filter or some other sort of gas mask/breathing apparatus, dipshit? Or maybe we could just hire illegal immigrants to do it, since they aren't American citizens and don't have to follow federal law in any other regard.

In the United States, 23 states have already banned smoking in restaurants and bars.

And those bars suck. They are no fun. They might as well ban drinking in those bars, too. If I was still a drinker, I wouldn't go to those bars--except, SOON, I'LL HAVE NO CHOICE ANYWHERE! Whoops! So much for freedom.

The study was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Great, our taxpayers money is so well-spent.

Also notice something--no name on the deceased girl, no name on the bar, no name on the bar owner, no town where this bar is located, no nothing. Might not even be real.