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   < Respiratory hazards <  
Tobacco smoke
 
(also see respiratory hazards and protection and mold, fungi, and toxic plants)
 
     
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Tobacco smoke links  
     
 

Addressing Class-Based Disparities Related to Tobacco: Working with Labor Unions (Cancer Causes and Control, 2001)
Bargaining Over Smoke-Free Workplace Laws (Organized Labor & Tobacco Control Network, 2005)
Building Trades Unions Ignite Less Tobacco (BUILT) (State Building and Consturction Trades Council of California, 2002)
Coverage For Tobacco Use Cessation Treatments by Health Insurance (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004)
Data on Tobacco-Related Health Disparities by Occupational Class (Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network, 2002)
The Effect of Clean Indoor Air Ordinances on Smoking Prevalence and Cessation (Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, 2002)
Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Draft Staff Report on Proposed Identification of Environmental Tobacco Smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminent (California Air Resources Board, October 2004)
Environmental Tobacco Smoke in the Workplace - Lung Cancer and Other Health Effect (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1991)
Epidemiological Basis for an Occupational and Environmental Policy on Environmental Tobacco Smoke (American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2000)
Final Regulations for the New York City Smoke-Free Air Act (Rules of the City of New York, 2003)
First Annual Independent Evaluation of New York’s Tobacco Control Program (New York State Department of Health, November 2004)
Five Easy Steps to a Smoke-Free Workplace (New York City Department of Health)
Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, 1997)
Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (National Cancer Institute, Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph Number 10)
Involuntary Smoking (Secondhand Smoke) (International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2004)
Impact of a Smoking Ban on Restaurant and Bar Revenues --- El Paso, Texas, 2002 (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2004)
Indoor Air Quality (Text of OSHA's never-adopted 1994 proposed regulation, including and detailed explanation of the health effects of secondhand tobacco smoke)
International Agency for Research on Cancer Declares Second-Hand Smoke Carcinogenic to Humans (May 2004)
Mortality among "Never Smokers" Living with Smokers (British Medical Journal, 2004)
New York City Smoke-Free Air Act Factsheet (New York City Department of Health)
New York City Smoke-Free Air Act text (Local Law 47of 2002)
New York City Smoke-Free Air Act and Clean Indoor Air Act Online Complaint Form (NYC Bureau of Tobacco Control, 2004)
Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network
Reduced Incidence of Admissions for Myocardial Infarction Associated with Public Smoking Ban: Before and after Study (British Medical Journal, April 2004)
Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking including the conclusion that about 2,200 fatalities annually in the U.S. are caused by (mostly occupational) secondhand-smoke exposure outside the home. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1992)
Role of Organized Labor in Diffusing Worksite Smoking Control Policies (Tobacco Policy Research and Evaluation Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Secondhand Smoke (Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights)
Secondhand Smoke/Environmental Tobacco Smoke/Smoke-Free Homes (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Setting the Record Straight: Secondhand Smoke is A Preventable Health Risk (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Smoke Free Bars and Taverns Improve Bartenders' Respiratory Health (Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on Tobacco)
Smoke-Free Restaurant and Workplaces Factsheet (California Smoke-Free Bars, Workplaces and Communities Program)
Smoke-Free Workplace Legislation Will Save Lives — and It Won't Hurt Business (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2004)
Smoke Screen: How the tobacco industry makes a packet and thousands die from passive smoke at work (Hazards Magazine)
Smoking and Tobacco Control Monographs, List of Monographs (National Cancer Institute)
Tobacco (Washington Department of Labor and Industries)
Tobacco Control: A Smoke-Free Workplace (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)
Tobacco Related Exposures (National Toxicology Program, 10th Report on Carcinogens, 2002)
Tobaccp Smoke and Involuntary Smoking (International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2004)
Union Health and Welfare Funds (‘Taft-Hartley Funds’) and Coverage for Smoking Cessation Fact Sheet (Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network, 2004)
What Do I Need to Know About Labor Unions and Tobacco? (Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network)
What Do I Need to Know about Working with Tobacco Control Organizations? (Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network)
What Unions and the Tobacco Control Movement Can Do (Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network)
Work, Smoking, and Health: A NIOSH Scientific Workshop (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2002)
Workplace Standards Establishing What Concentration of Tobacco Smoke is "Too Much." (OSHA, 1990)

 
   
Tobacco smoke news  
     
 

California Says its Long Anti-Tobacco Campaign Has Paid off California's 15-year anti-smoking campaign has dramatically reduced the burden of disease in the state, health officials said on January 25. High school smoking rates have fallen from 22% in 2000 to 13% in 2004 — a rate far lower than the national average. Californians voted in 1988 to raise cigarette taxes by 25 cents a pack, with 5 cents going toward tobacco education, research and other programs. (USA Today, January 25, 2005)


Award Upheld to Flight Attendant in Secondhand Smoke CaseA Florida appeals court upheld a $500,000 award to a flight attendant who blamed secondhand smoke on airliners for her bronchitis and sinus trouble -- a decision Wednesday that could clear the way for damage trials on up to 3,000 similar claims. The ruling for former TWA attendant Lynn French was a test case interpreting a $349 million settlement reached in 1997 between the tobacco industry and nonsmoking attendants. The flight attendants blamed their illnesses on smoke in the cabin before smoking was banned on domestic flights in 1990. (Associated Press, December 23, 2004)
Independent Evaluation: New York State's Anti-Smoking Efforts Succeeding: Study Notes Reductions in Second Hand Smoke Exposure and Tobacco Consumption — The New York State Health Department today announced the first independent evaluation of New York's anti-smoking and tobacco control program that found reductions in exposure to second hand smoke and an apparent decline in tobacco consumption. (NYS Department of Health press release, November 24, 2004
For Casino Workers, Smoke Study Underscores Hazard — ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- For casino worker Joan Zarych, there's no escaping the smoke. It surrounds her at work, it follows her home on her clothing, it aggravates the asthma she says she got from working around cigarette-smoking gamblers for 20 years. Whenever she gets a break, she hits the Boardwalk for a breath of fresh air. But for much of her eight-hour shift as a table games supervisor, she's stuck overseeing craps tables, roulette wheels and blackjack tables where the smoke from cigars and cigarettes hovers like an unwanted guest. Zarych, 45, would like to quit her $50,000-a-year job, but she has two young daughters to support. She can't. (Associated Press, October 17, 2004)
Smokescreams: The air war over workplace smoking heats up amid a push for tough - and consistent - regulations
— It's easy to spot smokers in New York City during the workday. They stand outside in little groups during breaks, exhaling fumes into the air. The scene may take place outside a building lobby or on a loading dock. But sometimes smokers refuse to step outside. Some business owners - perhaps tobacco users themselves - don't feel inclined to provide a smoke-free workplace. Some states support "smokers' rights." As smoking-related petitions are signed and lawsuits filed around the country, questions are being raised about what role, if any, government should play when it comes to smoking in the workplace. For seven years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been considering a standard for indoor air quality, an idea debated by business. OSHA's website includes a lengthy discussion on the health effects of secondhand smoke. Early in May, an antismoking group, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), brought a suit asking that OSHA ban workplace smoking nationwide. — Christian Science Monitor, June 4, 2001


 
 
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