Active and passive smoking hazards in the workplace
By: Judith A. Douville.
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Smoking -- Health aspects.; Passive smoking -- Health aspects.; Industrial hygiene.
Other titles: Smoking hazards in the workplace.
Description: This non-medical book is designed to assist industrial, commercial, and government personnel directors, employee relations directors, safety and health managers, company or facility doctors, nurses, and paraprofessionals, and public health officials in coping with the increased problems of workplace smoking. The book provides a practical guide, background information, and advice on the hazards of workplace smoking and passive exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. - Preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Active and passive smoking: the hazards. Health effects from tobacco smoke exposure -- Nature of environmental tobacco smoke: toxicity, acute irritant effects, and carcinogenicity -- Effects of environmental tobacco smoke -- References -- Workplace hazards of smoking. Concerns of commercial employers -- Concerns of industrial employers -- Concerns of special employers -- What constitutes passive exposure to tobacco smoke? -- Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: constituents -- Health effects: introduction -- Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: health effects -- Passive smoking and cardiovascular disease -- Irritation -- Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: occupational considerations -- References -- Employer considerations and workplace smoking. Costs of smoking -- Smoking prevalence in the workplace: employee characteristics -- Economics of health problems related to smoking -- Health and comfort of workers -- Deposition and absorption of tobacco smoke constituents -- References -- Workplace restrictions on smoking: decisions and policymaking -- Current policies dealing with smoking in public -- State laws regulating smoking -- Federal regulations concerning smoking -- Smoking regulations in specific public areas -- Current status of smoking regulations in the workplace -- Impact of policies restricting smoking in public and in the workplace -- Smoking policies for the federal workplace -- General Services Administration regulations -- Department of Defense policies -- Postal service policies -- Veterans Administration policies -- State and local workplace smoking laws -- State workplace smoking laws -- Local workplace smoking ordinances -- Workplace smoking policies in the private sector -- Summary: workplace smoking policies -- References -- Costs and benefits of programs. Costs and effects of workplace smoking policies -- Reference -- Programs for smoking cessation. Incentives for quitting smoking -- Smoking cessation programs -- Educational programs -- Educational methods, clinics, and groups -- Physician-mediated stop smoking programs -- Behavioral methods for stopping smoking -- References -- Program implementation and outcomes -- Implementation of worksite smoking programs -- Outcome of stop-smoking programs -- Long-term maintenance of smoking cessation -- Maintenance strategies for smoking cessation -- Special issues relevant to worksite programs.