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Tobacco smoke links |
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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)
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(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)
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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)
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BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">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 Case —
A 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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