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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 37 Workplace, Restaurant, And Airline Smoking |
| | Restrictions |
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| | The establishment of smoke free workplaces is important in contributing to the recent |
| | national declines in cigarette consumption in Australia and the United States. An |
| | estimated 22. 3% of the decline in total cigarette consumption in Australia between |
| | 1988 and 1995 was attributable to the establishment of smoke free workplaces, as |
| | was 12.7% of the decline in consumption in the United States between 1988 and |
| | 1994. These data "underscore the significance of the SFWs in a comprehensive |
| | approach to reducing tobacco consumption in communities,. These estimates |
| | reinforce some of our earlier suggestions about why the tobacco industry devotes so |
| | much of its lobbying efforts to discrediting the scientific basis of restrictions on indoor |
| | smoking, funding 'independent' scientific reports that concluded that the health risks |
| | posed by ETS are trivial, and undertaking expensive legal challenges to oppose |
| | government reports on ETS. Significantly, a 1991 tobacco industry memo stated, 'Of |
| | course ETS is the BIG ONE,... Bans and restrictions are matters which will interest the |
| | marketing people in particular because these will affect the bottom line if they are |
| | effective' (emphasis in original)." |
| | American Journal of Public Health, July 1999, pp. 1018-1023 (Simon Chapman) |
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| | In a 1998 nationwide survey, 72% of white-collar workplaces, 52% of service-oriented |
| | workplaces, and 46% of blue-collar workplaces were covered by a smoke free policy. |
| | Washington Post, November 15, 1998, p. H4 |
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| | In a study from Berkeley, California, more than 26% of smokers who were prohibited |
| | from smoking at work had quit in the preceding 6 months, compared with about 19% |
| | of smokers in communities with no antismoking ordinance. |
| | American Journal of Public Health, May 2000, p. 757 |
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