Phyllis M. Boucher This is Me

 View all 9 references Web References

1. 1. Agencies - CHNA 20

   www.bluehillscha.org/chna_memb - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/27/2007   Last Visited: 12/27/2007

   Phyllis M. Boucher, CHO
   
   Superintendent/Director
   
   Norwood Board of Health
   
   566 Washington Street
   
   P.O. Box 40
   
   Norwood, MA 02062
   
   Tel: (781) 762-1240

2. 2. City/Town Officials

   www.bluehillscha.org/city_town - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/27/2007   Last Visited: 12/27/2007

   Phyllis Boucher, CHO Director of Board of Health Norwood Board of Health

3. 3. Boston Globe Online / South Weekly / Officials seek to ban smoking in eateries

   search.boston.com/dailyglobe2/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/27/2001   Last Visited: 12/27/2001

   ''The charge of the Board of Health is to protect the public health,'' said Phyllis Boucher, director and superintendent of Norwood's board of health. ''The single most important thing you can do is not to smoke or be exposed to smoke.''
   
   Restaurant and bar owners fear a tough anti-smoking law in town would harm their business.
   
   For instance, there are a lot of customers at the Shamrock Pub who come in for the atmosphere. Many of them also enjoy a cigarette with their drink. That may not be possible if the board of health puts a new regulation into effect.
   
   ...
   Boucher said 13 establishments in town put in air filtration systems to allow a smoking section. However, tests conducted in 1999 by an HVAC engineering firm showed 11 of these places failed the clean-air test in the nonsmoking sections.
   
   ''We tried it and it didn't work,'' Boucher said. ''We're basically telling people they're in a nonsmoking area, yet there was smoke in that area.''
   
   In April, a hearing was held on the latest initiative, and recently Boucher asked selectmen to place it on April's ballot.
   
   Seeing the possibility of a smoking ban, some restarant owners have already taken action.
   ...
   Boucher said these private clubs are not being considered in the draft regulation now on the table since not everyone can patronize these places.
   
   ''You can only drink at a VFW if you're a member of the VFW,'' she said.
   
   Despite the misgivings of some, the move to ban smoking in food establishment has takem root in some communities. Braintree this summer enacted some of the toughest smoking regulations in the state, and Weymouth tightened its laws around the same time.
   
   The Norwood board of health will count up the votes in April, and then decide what action to take.
   
   The other towns in the area with new regulations under consideration also will be deciding on the smoking ban issue at about the same time.