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...justifies its action on the ground that it constitutes a safety program. At the targeted plants, which produce acoustical ceiling tiles and insulation products, workers are exposed to potentially hazardous dust from mineral fibers. Research suggests the risk of contracting lung diseases because of this dust is greater for smokers than nonsmokers. USG is not planning to ban smoking at its headquarters or other facilities where workers do not face the dust hazard...
Last week, in the Public Health Service's annual report on smoking, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned that so-called involuntary smoking -- simply breathing in the vicinity of people with lighted cigarettes in enclosed areas -- can cause lung cancer and other illnesses in healthy nonsmokers. Children of parents who smoke, the report stated, have more respiratory infections than children of nonsmokers. Infants of parents who smoke are hospitalized more often for bronchitis and pneumonia than babies in nonsmoking households. Furthermore, the Surgeon General warned that the risk of involuntary smoking may not be eliminated by separating nonsmokers from smokers...
...cervical disk removed and wore a massive neck brace as he announced the study. "The right of the smoker to smoke stops at the point where his or her smoking increases the disease risk of those occupying the same environment." While no hard estimate of the number of lung cancers or other diseases caused by involuntary smoking is yet available, the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be responsible for 2,400 lung cancer deaths annually...
...fact, no one knows exactly how smoking, passive or active, causes cancer; statistics merely show that it does. Koop compares the objection with ones made by the tobacco industry after the Surgeon General's landmark 1964 report that linked smoking to lung cancer. "The evidence is as strong against involuntary smoking as it was in 1964 against smoking itself," he says. "There is now a ground swell to move forward. If this evidence were available on another environmental pollutant, we would have acted long...
Although young, healthy students probably don't need vaccines, UHS Deputy Director Dr. Sholem Postel said those students who have chronic health problems, including diabetes and heart and lung problems, should consider being vaccinated...