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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 37 Workplace, Restaurant, And Airline Smoking |
| | Restrictions |
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| | A universal workplace smoking ban would result in 178,000 additional quitters in the |
| | Untied States each year. |
| | Journal of the National Cancer Institute, March 17, 1999, p. 504 |
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| | After establishment of smoke free bars in California in 1998, bartender exposure to |
| | ETS declined from a median of 28 to 2 hours weekly. There was a rapid reduction in |
| | respiratory symptoms as well as an improvement in forced vital capacity and to a |
| | lesser extent, forced expiratory volume in one second. |
| | JAMA, December 9, 1998, pp. 1909-1914 |
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| | 59% of bartenders reporting respiratory problems before a smoking ban in California |
| | bars no longer had them four to eight weeks after the ban took effect. More than three |
| | quarters of the bartenders with irritated eyes, noses or throats before the ban reported |
| | that these problems had resolved on their followup medical exams. The article |
| | concluded that establishment of smoke free bars in California was associated with a |
| | rapid improvement of respiratory health in workers. |
| | JAMA, December 9, 1998, pp. 1909-1914 |
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| | A statewide ban on smoking in restaurants in Maine, affecting 40,000 restaurant |
| | workers, has been approved. |
| | "Maine", USA Today, April 7, 1999 |
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| | In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the largest mall in the region has banned smoking, |
| | as have other malls in Greensboro and High Point, North Carolina. |
| | NBC evening news, January 30, 1999 |
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