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...enthusiasm for smoke-free work environments is not surprising, given the indisputable evidence on the dangers of secondhand smoke. This becomes more alarming when one realizes that an estimated 53,000 workers die each year from exposure to secondhand smoke. The Boston Public Health Commission should indeed be commended for its efforts in protecting workers and patrons in Boston from this deadly carcinogen...
What is a president's life worth? In Afghanistan it may prove to be as little as a pair of secondhand Toyota Corolla hatchbacks. That's the payoff Afghan intelligence officials believe was offered to Abdur Rehman, the man who attempted to assassinate president Hamid Karzai almost three weeks ago. The cars are said to have been waiting for Rehman across the border in Pakistan should he have succeeded and survived his bid to kill Karzai. He did neither. Instead, Rehman was gunned down after opening fire on the president's car on September 5, missing his target but wounding...
...Khalil is certain there will be war again. Recently, he bought himself a uniform and sewed on insignia he found at a secondhand market. He doesn't want to fight, but he is a soldier, so he has applied to the Ministry of Defense for a spot in the fledgling Afghan national army. In the meantime, Khalil can't afford the pen and notebook he promised his son for school, just as the Afghan government is unable to fulfill its promises of better days for Khoshal Khan A. But Khalil keeps building, his hopes slowly rising once again from...
...growing awareness of these risks, and not just becau se of the unpleasantness of cigarette smoke, that there has been a slew of legislation in the past few years banning smoking from the workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has classified secondhand smoke as a “potential occupational carcinogen” and has recommended that employers minimize occupational exposure in “all non-industrial work environments” by using “all available preventive measures.” While much attention and legislation has been targeted at employees in corporate offices and retail...
...areas. This type of partial regulation does not go far enough to give restaurant employees a smoke-free environment. Research conducted by the School of Public Health at the University of California Berkeley, found that even in restaurants where customers may only smoke in designated areas, staff exposure to secondhand smoke was still up to half that of staff in restaurants with no smoking restrictions at all. This study included participants who worked in res taurants with separate ventilation systems for smoking and non-smoking areas...