Surf these sites: ASH: Smoking in the workplace - resources on the web -- Trying to get a smokefree workplace? Lots of resources here. BREATH -- The California Smoke-free Bar Program -- Explains the hows and whys of California''s smoke-free bars. CDC''s TIPS - Making Your Workplace Smokefree - A Decision Maker''s Guide -- Center for Disease Control: research, data, reports, factsheets, ideas, and lots of links. NYC Department of Health - DOH Smoke / Tobacco Control -- Are you breathing secondhand smoke in the workplace? In public places? What you can do; steps to a smokefree workplace. Nolo Press: Smoking in the Workplace -- Brief article on smokefree workplaces and the law. 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. Secondhand smoke danger shown in study -- September 1997: research presented at the American Chemical Society convention. Marker for exposure to ETS was found in the urine of nonsmoking hospital workers caring for patients in a smoking area of a Canadian veterans hospital. 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. 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. Smoking & the Work Place -- Fact sheet on secondhand smoke in the workplace, from the Maryland Tobacco Page. Smoking Ban is only way to protect health of Non-Smoking Workers, Researchers Assert -- Non-smokers in workplaces where there were only limited bans on smoking were 2.8 times more likely to be exposed to secondhand smoke than those working in a smoke free environment, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Steady exposure to passive smoke nearly doubles risk of heart attack, death for women, study -- Boston, May 1997. 32,000 nurses studied. Nurses who were regularly exposed to secondhand smoke by their co-workers or home companions had a 91 percent higher risk of a heart attack or death; nurses with occasional exposure to secondhand smoke had 58% greater risk.
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