By CTK / Published 31 July 2007 Prague, July 30 (CTK)

Most Czechs in favour of smoking ban in restaurants
- The number of Czechs who mind smoking in restaurants, bars and cafes is rising and over half of the population would like to ban smoking at such places completely, a poll conducted by the Median agency for the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) has revealed.

The results differ considerably from another poll made by the Eurobarometer agency half a year ago. Only one third of Czechs were in favour of non-smoking restaurants then,MfD writes today.

According to Median, 54 percent of Czechs want to ban smoking in restaurants completely. As many as 74 percent of them are non-smokers, the paper writes.

Smokers, on the other hand, do not like the idea of having to go out of the restaurant to have a smoke. Only 13 percent of them support a ban of smoking in restaurants, the paper adds.

The majority support for a complete ban of smoking in restaurants plays into the hands of the advocates of a new anti-smoking bill on which the lower house of parliament is to decide in September, MfD writes.

A bill by doctor Boris Stastny, an MP for the senior government Civic Democratic Party (ODS), does not suggest a complete ban of smoking in restaurants. That would have a small chance of succeeding in parliament, the paper writes.

Stastny proposes that restaurants obligatorily separate smoking areas from the non-smoking ones. The only difference from today’s habit is that the separation would not be just formal but that special rooms, separated from the non-smoking areas by walls, would have to be created, MfD writes.

Article courtesy of Dr Rob Oliver
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At least a few times weekly I get asked whether or not someone will have a scar after a certain procedure. People are sometimes under misconceptions about how exactly Plastic Surgery works. Anything you cut, burn, or excise scars. The quality depends upon a number of factors including:    Location – certain areas don’t scar as well as others (behind the ear, the medial-lower breast, the armpit, the scalp)Tension – more tension equals wider scars. This plays a factor in the areas listed under location. Incisions across areas with lots of motion (the knee, wrist, & shoulder) all tend to be wide.  Technique – Plastic Surgeons didn’t invent good surgical technique and gentle tissue handling habits, but we tend to pay more attention to it.  Genetic predisposition – sometimes it’s your parent’s fault. A number of people display profound inflammatory responses with exaggerated scarring from anything. I make a point of discussing this with Asian and African-American women (who have higher rates of hypertrophic or keloid scarring) when discussing breast surgery.  Medical commodities – diabetics, obese patients, those with arterial disease, and gastric bypass patients all have baseline wound healing problems to some degree.     Age – the inflammatory response of normal healing varies with age. You can do experimental surgery in utero and get essentially scarless healing of a fetus. However the response in children and teens to injury can be exaggerated scars as their immune systems tend to be “peaking” during those years. Alternatively, you can do things to the face of 70-90 year olds that would disfigure younger patients and often not even find a scar.