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I ~ Z C 0 01 ~ tlj WHAT EDITORIALS SAY ABOUT THE EPA REPORT EPA-Repoft Sparb Antltteroking Plans: P/alntlfh' Suits May Pe+od FNfns To Bar Smoking - The (EPAJ is countiing mainly on plaintiRs hwyers. rather than regula- tois, to drive businesses lo ban smoking on thek pnmtises, and ttie hwyea are eager to oomply. As a fesult of the EPA's report I'inkifg 'passive' tobacco smoke tb king cancer and other a8rnanls„ a new wave of tobaoco-related tawsuR!f is lllceiy. WaM Street Jounlal "No one would grant his neighbor the right to blow Gny amounts of asbestos Into a room or sprinkle traoes of pesticide onto food. By the same logic, sn+okers have no rigM to spew even more noxious cbuds Into the air around them. The next step has to be a searching examination of how to tighten restrictions on smoking In all public places, and the workplace as weR." New York Times "More and more the owners or operators of public facilities like the Orioles are send- ing tobacco smoke the way of flakMg asbestos - and for the same reason. It Idlls innocsM people." BaHlmae Sun "Smoking Is being slowty pushed farther and faAher out of pubiic plaoes. Given fhe /mdings on passive smoking, snoken and nor-smokers should cooperate to extend the process to private places as wetl " Atbuqueilque Joumal 'I/ indoor smoking Isn't curbed, some people who think they've been put at risk by secondhand smoke may wind up taking their Opniptaklls to f7ollft." Ra1Ngh N.ws & Observer n99S(1RGR v ~ 'G ~ ~ rr rrGT e ~f-Ax ~w...'}( ~Y. JV ~t. ~ "" ~ A 'L~lS 'an z~ 0 0~ E O E os~~: ~Se x ~ 3 » g~ of 3 ~~~~~3~~ s. l ~ n ' .$§sg s~ ~ g o00oooooa 0 a ' '^ 125 S ~. y .aZis~3 ~~ ~ N _ ~~g~iGnn73M < oof~ooooo0 0 Y ^ ~ E o t3 L" 'L~ c ~ Q cgt~ ~~e~ o w x00.6 gC $ ~ s ~ A d ~ o = ~ C ~~~~w~:~~a`a `~~W~SSS~ E z ~hM~noN$o° u. 000000000 eQ LEGAL NO1 IC E PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THIS DOCUMENT CAN PREVENT AN UNNECESSARY DEATH AVOID A LAW SUIT SLASH HEALTH CARE AND OTHER COSTS r WARNING: TOBACCO SMOKE IS HAZARDOUS TO THE HEALTH OF NONSMOKERS, ANO CAN CAUSE DEATH AND DISABILITY FROM CANCER AND HEART DISEASE. / Prnpaied as a pubt c servia by Acfion on Smaking and H.aM (ASH), 2013 H St, hMl. Wa.h. DC 20006. a naoona 1paFaclion anliWnoMinq or9anlae6on wwfNMdi aasisls nontmoMeis U OrkqUp IpNacliosa. Addlb»- al inlomytion and Walbna araftbw. Pwase wib. Ploaso foel frre /o pholocepy this doeum.nt

TOBACCO SMOKE KILLS LEGAL LIABILITY THE IMPACT The Environmental Prokvtion Agency (EPA) has just reported Environmental Tobacco Snake (ETS) is a'Grvup A Can:inogenr; i.e., a ctremicd Nlie asbestos and benzene known to cause kinp cancer deaths In nonsmokers. • The toflowing have also reported that ETS causes lung cancer de8ths in nonsmokers. • M+.rktin Canar Sodry . Am.rinn Hearl Assa.iation . MuAa. Lurq As.oci.tlon . Mwinn Nl.dipr/ AisooiNMn . AnrAw. Pubic H.NN I1swci.tlon • dwmalbnsl Aq..cy tMF R...aFOA on Canwr • National Aead.nry of Sd.nc+N • National CanoeF InstlWt. • N.tionll InstllW. ror Ocwp.aDnd SaNty & H.aIIA • U.S. Pupie Hsalth 5.rvios • WoAd H.aAh Oiqsnastlon Under the new Americans NMh Disabilities Act (ADA), most businesses are required to make a reasonable aocomodation to permit handicapped persons aooess to their onioes and workplaoes. It is now well established that persons sensitive to to- baooo smoke are "handreapped persons" under federal law. (1) Even without the evidence now newly available in the EPA's report which un- doubtedly wiA lead to more cases, workers have been recovering compensation for injuries caused by on-the4ob exposure to driltlng tobacco smoke. They have ob- tained recovery under the common law (2) and statutes nela6ng to workers' compen- sation (3), disability (4), unemployment compensation (5), and disuirnination (6). M inaeasing number (of reshurantiq arn in the process of banning smoldng. lheis is not a chain In the oountry that is not considerirg it today.• National Reetaurant Assocfarion Already, 566A of organizations surveyed are oompletey smoke-froe; by the year 2002, another 40% will have enacted a smoke-free policy. Only 4% said they expected to continue aAowing smoking during the next 10 years. Intmatlonal Facility Manapenant Aasn. 'll's just a matter of lime before smoking Is completely banned in the workplace. Il wiA happen in 10 years - maybe less." National Alliance of Bussnss The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that "an estimated 53,000 Annericans die each year from exposure to tobacco smoke of others." The EPA has also reported that ETS is particularly dangerous to young chNdren, and that each year it causes them: • 150.004300.000 rrspiralnFy iMections. Indudirq pnMuewenU and blondMtl.  400.0110-1,000.000 aMacks of esMwne • as mary as 26.000 new cases of aswrna . middM ear efhuion (a syrtptan of dissase) NOTE: These and other wldely- pubticized reports of official governmental and privata agen- cies place businesses on legal notice of the many danqers of secondhand smoke to workers, cusbomers, and oth.r visitaors. A A recent Interesting and far-reaching case Involved a school teacher whose chronic obstructive lung disease was caused by smoke drifting Into her second floor class- room from a first floor teachers' lounge. (7) The EPA report Is also Gkely to spur cases brought on behalf of young children brought into the smoking sections of fast- food restaurants, on internatwnal fiighls, and other situations where they suffer asthmatic and other attacks as a result of enormous concentrations of smoke, („tt s..... vw.... vw.. A..a. es F. s.w ss W0wrk nMl Qs.a.O.c.w.. t......veyrF.A.ss.r.s,y, SOF /OO.C HsR /YrdM.1 sftr. 185 Cd /lOf tb* Wy Hl7) Q SM e .. Jd~www ~ • Mw YerM ClF Oprl d N.,ner o«..om.K !.. M v s. ]A .. (I w. 801160 ._ Iws. WA fqMw.Ihrwft. Ai4!!MF lr M (M G/1Q1 (FjS....9.ta,f... Cw..a...w lii-Pp.p".r r.o.0 ~ar4 SO A1d 101 h Go.Ma #N1t AMnw+i.v.IMr.wW,..d Mr N..+.e..cary.«+r+..ftFr6cwu+.. E,W.,.".o...o. .rA 0aW. 306 Cd Mi 1!8 rA. /yw t erl. O. 6. tMq tR swl •.. Cw.h .f Mrr .. F.Y Ewpftwwwid .+1 Mw.M4 1'.esn a C~.a[ 0§O4 .n1 Cys. Aw11rf.. M MwUl p d/yp sY1ft d Cr;wiq FlU M 0ak !77 cI /yY !af I?71f1r Q faM..w ta. Ny.r.IMi/d surw O~wY1VA.1 MA PAS IMO, tA 4W1M. CIMrrYrAnr Q.n.ui..F.. AA..I. h.t "As a result of the EPA ruling, Greyhound Lines Inc. says It plans to reassess a smoking policy that had already grown Increasingly restrictive In nwent years. 'Given the EPA findings, we will seriously consider abandoning smoking for all of our locations." Wan strnet Journal "Men I learned that seoond-Mnd smoke is a known carcinogen with no sate level of exposure, and that air-conditioning simply recirculates it I decided I did not went my famiiy, my customers or my employees to breathe tobaczo smoke. Ten months ago I made all four of my restaurants no smok- ing. . . yet (my restaurants') sales ars about the same. Pasadena ICA) Restaurand Owner Employers can save, on the auerage, over f5000/year in health care, sick leave, and other costs for every emptoyee penuaded to quil. Management World t99S094g