Smoking Issues

Court Asks About Impact of Workplace Smoking

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 28th, 1996

The U.S. Court of Appeals may have gotten more than it expected when it recently asked for real-life examples of how smoking in the workplace affects nonsmoking employees.

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), in an affidavit filed with the court, told of one worker who said that "my office is so full of smoke that by the end of the day I'm blowing chunks of blood from my nose."

Another worker who wrote to ASH for help said that, "I must go to work everyday, but due to smoke around me, I come home with bleeding sinuses, swollen eyes, and reeking of smoke."

Still another worker said, "I do not have asthma, sinusitis, or hay fever,...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1996-10-28)

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