secondhand smoke

Kids Encourage Havre, MT to Pass Tobacco Free City Parks Resolution

Cox was one of nearly 20 youths from the HELP Committee and Boys Girls Club is ...
Thirteen-year-old Donald Cox says he knows firsthand the dangers of secondhand cigarette smoke ...
Schuschke said he plans to work with city officials to decide the best place to post the signs ...

Former NM Inmate Sues Prison Operators

Roberts, who filed the suit last week in Santa Fe District Court, claims that because of his exposure to environmental tobacco smoke as an inmate at the county jail, and 12 to 15 days, respectively, according to the suit ...
Schuschke said he plans to work with city officials to decide the best place to post the signs ...
According to the suit, he was able to quit his habit of one to five cigarettes once he was transferred out of the Santa Fe County jail June 8, 2000 ...
Cox was one of nearly 20 youths from the HELP Committee and Boys Girls Club is ...

Cigarette Major Source of Beach Litter

According to the suit, he was able to quit his habit of one to five cigarettes once he was transferred out of the Santa Fe County jail June 8, 2000 ...
Now, antitobacco activists have joined with coastal environmentalists to battle the problem of cigarette butts fouling beaches, play areas and estuaries ...
The county jail's former manager, Cornell Corrections, is named as a defendant in the suit ...
Schuschke said he plans to work with city officials to decide the best place to post the signs ...

2 CO Inmates File Secondhand Smoke Lawsuit

According to the lawsuit, the inmates -- Ahmad Mohammad Ajaj and Dandenis Munoz Mosquera -- don't fear violence from inside the prison as much as second-hand smoke ...
A third inmate, Omar Mohammed Rezaq, is also named as a plaintiff in the lawsuit ...
Now, antitobacco activists have joined with coastal environmentalists to battle the problem of cigarette butts fouling beaches, play areas and estuaries ...
The pair, who are acting as their own attorneys, will be in federal court in Denver Thursday arguing pre-trial motions ...
The Supermax prison used to allow smoking in some individual cells, but that changed last September when all smoking there was banned ...

New UK Study Adds More Evidence Against the Dangers of Passive Smoking

An Evening Standard investigation found that some drinkers in London pubs absorbed nicotine and other dangerous chemicals equivalent to smoking one cigarette every three hours ...
They claim the risk to non- smoke rs of going to pubs and restaurants where smoking is allowed is Fresh evidence of the health risk from passive smoking is revealed today ...
Over the course of a year, the laboratory results from our sample mean the average non-smoking Londoner going out twice a week is smoking the equivalent of 100 cigarettes each year ...

Editorial: Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport Should be Smokefree

The decline coincided with the city's ban on smoking, as well as higher tobacco taxes ...
The Atlanta City Council is expected to consider an indoor smoking ban next month ...
Attempting to corral the massive amounts of cigarette smoke in the airport's 11 smoking lounges and bars is futile ...
Like cigarettes and matches, burned-out butts and sand-filled ashtrays, the connection was so obvious nobody noticed - until recently ...

Majority of Cincinnati Citizens Support a Workplace Smoking Ban

Officials at Philadelphia International Airport received hundreds of e-mails supporting a recent ban on smoking ...
According to the suit, he was able to quit his habit of one to five cigarettes once he was transferred out of the Santa Fe County jail June 8, 2000 ...
Why should Atlanta, one of the world's busiest airports, be any different ...
But 25 bars and restaurants said they intend to go smoke -free voluntarily, joining 235 eateries that returned surveys and have already done so ...
He helped plan the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 ...

UK: Secondhand Smoke in the Workplace Kills Hundreds Per Year

This formula was based on information from other studies on the risks of dying from lung cancer, heart disease and cancer as a result of passive smoking ...
On May 1, the airport eliminated smoking because of health concerns, joining 10 of the country's 20 top airports in doing so ...
Greg Parrish, correctional services manager for the county, said Monday that an advisory committee is studying the issue of banning smoking at the jail but is not expected to make ...
And there are no warning signs on the lounges for heart patients or pregnant women ...
Second-hand tobacco smoke at work kills hundreds of Britons each year - including almost one hospitality industry worker a week, a study says ...

New Study: Smoke-free Cities Have Lower Indoor Air Pollution

The differences can be attributed to the number of smoke rs at a given time and how well the ventilation system displaces the air, Hyland said ...
The tests were carried out in four typical London venues - a local pub, a cocktail bar, a gastropub and a cigar ...
The New York State Health Department and local health departments have since granted waivers to establishments that can prove they suffered financial hardship under the ban ...

Wichita Tobacco Free Coalition Pushes for Smoking Ban

According to the suit, he was able to quit his habit of one to five cigarettes once he was transferred out of the Santa Fe County jail June 8, 2000 ...
Over the course of a year, the laboratory results from our sample mean the average non-smoking Londoner going out twice a week is smoking the equivalent of 100 cigarettes each year ...
MacDonald, who worked for the city's Health Department for 30 years, said more people would support the initiative if they were better educated on the issue of secondhand smoke ...
Ferguson and other members of the coalition pleaded their case to city advisory boards earlier this month, hoping to gain backing ...