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Posts from ‘January, 2006’

California Identifies Secondhand Smoke As A “Toxic Air Contaminant”

Jerry Martin, Gennet Paauwe - the California Environmental Protection Agency | January 26, 2006
SACRAMENTO — Today the California Air Resources Board (ARB) identified environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or secondhand smoke, as a Toxic Air Contaminant (TAC). ETS is now formally identified as an airborne toxic substance that may cause and / or contribute to death […]

Passive Smoking Risks in Catering Industry

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Toxicology on the 20th of January 2006: 
Risks for Heart Disease and Lung Cancer from Passive Smoking by Workers in the Catering Industry
Workers in the catering industry are at greater risk of exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) when smoke free workplace policies are not in […]

Cost of tobacco-related diseases

RESEARCH PAPER
Cost of tobacco-related diseases, including passive smoking, in Hong Kong
S M McGhee1, L M Ho1, H M Lapsley2, J Chau1, W L Cheung1, S Y Ho1, M Pow1, T H Lam1, A J Hedley1
1 Department of Community Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
2 Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation […]