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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

(Held hearings in 1994 to ban smoking in workplaces) OSHA opened hearings in September 1994 on a proposal that amounts to a virtual ban on smoking in every workplace in the nation

The abbreviation for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is OSHA. A. Judson Wells, who conducted a 1994 study of passive smoke and heart disease, is a consultant to OSHA (AP 8/1/94). Joe Dear was the assistant secretary of labor in charge of OSHA in 1994. He was quoted regarding OSHA's proposed ban on workplace smoking (WP 9/18/94). OSHA opened hearings in September 1994 on a proposal that amounts to a virtual ban on smoking in every workplace in the nation (WP 9/18/94).