- Another Blue-Collar Woe: Higher Exposure to Secondhand Smoke
Blue-collar and service workers are exposed to more secondhand smoke on the job than other employees.
http://www.ohsonline.com/Stevens/OHSPub.nsf/frame?open&redirect=http://www.ohsonline.com/stevens/ohspub.nsf/NewNews/E4685492BBDF27C286256C1C004437DA?Opendocument
- Cigarette Verdict a Warning to Clubs
Recent jury decision, finding a bar worker's cancer was caused by secondhand smoke, is expected to lead to smokefree bars and clubs.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1958374%255E421,00.html
- Multnomah County Smokefree workplace
Resources of use to any smokefree worksite, including health effects of workplace exposure to secondhand smoke, benefits to employers of going smokefree, and extensive findings of a task force investigating smokefree workplaces.
http://www.smokefreeworksite.org/
- OSH Answers on Secondhand Smoke
General information and health effects, from Canada's national occupational health and safety resource.
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/psychosocial/ets_health.html
- Passive Smoke Nearly Doubles Risk of Heart Attack
Based on a study of 32,000 nurses; nurses who were regularly exposed to secondhand smoke by their co-workers or home companions had a 91% higher risk of a heart attack or death; nurses with occasional exposure to secondhand smoke had a 58% greater risk.
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/29486.htm
- Second Hand Smoke in the Workplace in Canada
The Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia provides health and legal information on secondhand smoke in the workplace.
http://www.worksafebc.com/priority/smoke/default.asp
- Secondhand Smoke Exposure
Emphasis is on measurements taken at workplaces: offices, bars, casinos, airlines, and so on.
http://www.repace.com/fact_exp.html
- SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc.
"Together we can win smokefree workplace legislation, including smokefree offices, restaurants, bowling alleys, bars, and clubs." Facilitates letter writing between smokefree advocates and key decision makers.
http://www.smokefree.org/
- Smokefree Workplace Law means Californians Continue to Breathe Easier
Article from the American Lung Association of California. In the fourth year of California's smokefree workplace law, contrary to the dire predictions of the tobacco industry, restaurants are booming in California, tourism is up, and the hospitality industry is doing good business. And the number of Californians protected from secondhand smoke has grown tremendously.
http://www.californialung.org/press/981229smokefree.html
- Smoking & the Work Place
Fact sheet on secondhand smoke in the workplace, from the Maryland Tobacco Page.
http://sailor.lib.md.us/docs/tobacco/workfac4.htm
- Study into Secondhand Smoke
A new study reveals that non-smoking hospitality workers are breathing in increasing amounts of nicotine by-products.
http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,37963-1-6,00.html
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