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Smoke-Free Workplace
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Smoke-Free Workplace
Examines health hazards, research, smoker profile, anti-smoking programs, compliance with regulations, responses of businesses & tobacco firms.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
18 sources |
1996
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"Cigarette smoking constitutes a major public health concern in the United States (King, Flora, Fortmann, and Taylor 1340-1341). Smoking tobacco, particularly in the form of cigarettes, creates a risk of sudden cardiac arrest for smokers three times higher than the comparable risk for a non-smoker (Koop 1). Approximately 85 percent of all lung cancers in the United States are caused by smoking tobacco; persons smoking two packs of cigarettes per day have a lung cancer rate 25 times that of the non-smoker (Koop 1). Cigarette smoking is the major cause of chronic obstructive lung disease--emphysema is common among older persons who have smoked, while it is rarely found among older non-smokers. Premature delivery, spontaneous abortion, and stillbirth risks..."More papers on Smoke-Free Workplace:
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Smoke-Free Workplace (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Smoke-Free-Workplace/11868
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"Smoke-Free Workplace" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Smoke-Free-Workplace/11868>
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