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Involuntary smoking in the restaurant workplace: A review of employee exposure and health effects
Journal Article
Objective.\\
To determine the relative exposure to environmental tobacco smoke for bar and restaurant employees compared with office employees and with nonsmokers exposed in the home (part 1) and to determine whether this exposure is contributing to an elevated lung cancer risk in these employees (part 2). |
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Legislating abjection? Secondhand smoke, tobacco control policy and the public's health
Journal Article
Since the mid-1990s the position that “no amount of secondhand smoke is safe” has achieved hegemonic status in the field of public health. This has bolstered efforts in the tobacco control community to advocate for smoke-free legislation and a variety of countries around the world have implemented indoor smoking bans, with many others presently following suit. Increasingly, tobacco contro… |
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Letter re fatal flaws in Schober et al. paper on environmental vapor
Blog Post
by Carl V Phillips
Below is a letter to the editor and Igor Burstyn and I will be submitting to the journal that published this article -- “Use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) impairs indoor air quality and increases FeNO levels of e-cigarette consumers” by Schober W, Szendrei K, Matzen W, Osiander-Fuchs H, Heitmann D, Schettgen T, Jörres RA, Fromme H – which made alarmist claims about the content of exh… |
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New Study of Passive Vaping Shows No Evidence of a Significant Public Health Hazard
Blog Post
A new study published online ahead of print in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health is one of the first to examine levels of chemicals in the ambient air of a real-life setting in the presence of electronic cigarette use. |
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Real–Time Measurement of Outdoor Tobacco Smoke Particles
Journal Article
Abstract
The current lack of empirical data on outdoor tobacco smoke (OTS) levels impedes OTS exposure and risk assessments. We sought to measure peak and time-averaged OTS concentrations in common outdoor settings near smokers and to explore the determinants of time-varying OTS levels, including the effects of source proximity and wind. Using five types of real-time airborne particle monitoring devices, we obtained mo… |
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The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General
Report
6 Major Conclusions of the 2006 Surgeon General Report
Smoking is the single greatest avoidable cause of disease and death. In this report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to |
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Two-Thirds of Americans OK With E-Cig Use In Their Personal Space, Survey Finds
Newspaper Article
First U.S. Study of Its Kind Finds 63 Percent of Adults Would Not Be Bothered By Use of E-Cigs; Majority Approve of ‘Vaping’ at Sporting Events; Men, Women Differ in Opinions |
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Virginia- “an E-Cigarette Does Not Fall within the Definition of ”smoke“ or ‘smoking’ for Purposes of § 15.2-2820”
Legal Opinion
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
Office of the Attorney General
April 27, 2010
The Honorable Christopher K. Peace
Member, House of Delegates
P.O. Box 819
Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111 |