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Passive Smoking A_d T_ _n_ocent Vil_im: a D_ilemma_o_ Policy Ma_e_s
Abstract
Recently through the courageous leadership of groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving we have become more conscious of the slaughter on our highways caused by alcohol abuse and have taken concrete steps ~o curb ~his abuse. Due ~o those efforts alcohol related deaths have dropped dramatically in recent years. Of the approximately ~wenty two thousand annual aLcoho~ related traffic fatalities in the U.S. about hal~ are drunk drivers themselves.
Fields
- Named Organization
- American Journal of Epidemiology (scientific periodical)
- Archives (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Dartmouth College
- *Department of Transportation (use United States Department of Transportation)
- Emory University
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- *Health and Human Services (HHS) (use United States Department of Health and Hum (US)
- International Journal of Cancer (scientific periodical)
- Journal of the National Cancer Institute (scientific periodical)
- Lancet
- National Safety Council
- Yale Law School
- Archives (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Named Person
- Auerbach, Oscar, M.D. (Research Scientist, VA Hospital, E. Orange, NJ)
- Connor, Elizabeth Barrett
- Forte, Peter
- Garfinkel, Lawrence (Epidemiology & Statistics VP, ACS, Plaintiff's Expert)
Lawrence Garfinkel was an American Cancer Society official. He did a study which disputed a "Japanese Study" of early 1980s that concluded nonsmoking wives of smokers had a higher cancer rate than the smoking husbands (E. Whelan 1984). In an early 1980s ad, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company quoted Garfinkle, out of context, to attempt to prove that passive smoking is not an important health-policy issue. Garfinkle protested by letter to the N.Y. Times (L. White, Merchants 1988).- Garland, Cedric
- Gibson, Mary
- James I, King of England (Stuart) (Wrote attack on tobacco in 1604)
Wrote attack on tobacco in 1604- Jones, Alan
- Koop, C. Everett, M.D. (Surgeon General ('81-'89))
former US Surgeon General (1981-1989)- Lowrey, Alfred H. (Repace's coauthor on important secondhand smoke study)
research chemist in the Laboratory for the Structure of Matter at the Naval Research Laboratory.- Neiss, Scott T.
- Samet, Jonathan M.
- Schenker, Marc B.
- Speer, Frederic
- Topping, John C.
- Wingard, Deborah L.
- Connor, Elizabeth Barrett
- Date Loaded
- 16 Mar 2005
- Box
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18 40 CFR, Parr 50, 53, and 58, FR 1984, 10408, March 20, 1984.
19 Cedric Garland, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Lucina S~arez, Michael H.
Criqui and Deborah L, Wingard, "Effects of Passive ~moking on ~schemic
Heart Disease Mortality of Nonsmokers: A Prospec˘ive Study,"American
Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 121, No. 5, 645-650, 1985.
20 U.S. Surgeon General, The Health Consequences of Smoking: Chronic
Obstructive Lung Disease, U.S. Departmeu~ of Health and Human Services,
1984 at 368.
21 40 CFE, Pare 50, FR 1985 37484, SepC. 14, 1985.
22,p.E. Pimm, F. Silverman, and E.J. Shephard, "Physiological Effects of
Acute Passive Exposure to CisareCte Smoke," Archives of Environmental
Heal~______~h, Vol. 33, No. 4, 201-213, July-Augus~ 1978.
23 U.S. Surgeon General, The Health Consequences of Smoking: Chronic
Obstructive Lun~ Disease.
24 Eepace, "~isks of Pass'ire Smoking," 1985 at 6.
25 U.S. Surgeon General~ The Health Consequences of Smoking: Chronic
Obstructive Lung Disease.
26 Repace, Risks of Passive Smoking, 1985 at 5-6.
27 For a discussion of the history of tobacco smoking in the U.S. see
Frederic Speer, "Tobacco and the Nonsmoker: A Study of Subjective
Symptoms," Archives of Environmental Health, 16, 1968. An ex~enslve
exploration of the spread of ~obac˘o smokin8 Eo ~he developing countries
can be'found in William ~. Chandler, Banishing Tobacco, Worldwa~ch, January
1986.
28 Chandler, Banishing Tobacco, 1986 ac 12 and 13.
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29 Such severe r~sCri~ons would normally be unnecessary for most
outdoor occupations, e.g. agricult~re~ couscructiou, etc. where smokin8
limitations would be more related to commousensical measures to avoid fire
or explosion. Private offices with natural ventilation, i.e. windows tha~
open readily, could achieve rapid evaeua~iou of ha~nfu~ tobacco smoke.
Provided tha~ smokers consistently used such natural ventilation, it migh~
be possible to permit smoking in such naturally ventilated private offices
or designated smoking rooms withou~ exposing nonsmoking workers to
significant heal~h risk. Such aocommodation to smokers would involve some
modest additional energy expenditure by employers.
30 See James L. Repace and Alfred H. Lowrey~ An indoor air quali~y
standard for ambient ~o~acco smoke based on carcinosenic risk," Hew York
S~a~e Journal of Medicine, Volo 85, July 1985. The authors calculate ~hat
ventilation ~o achieve an acceptable risk from passive smoking would
require ~28,000 per smoker~ exclusive of fan operating costs. Repace and
Lowrey~ 382.
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