[C-U Smokefree] New Study on Elimination of Second Hand Smoke

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Hi All--

this just in from the sceintific literature.

Keep up the great work!

theo

• Health Benefits of Snuffing out Workplace Smoking Detailed by Stanford 
Researcher Source: Business Wire, 2004-06-22

Intro: Stubbing out smoking in all American workplaces would prevent hundreds 
of deaths -- primarily among those exposed to secondhand smoke -- and save 
tens of millions of dollars in health-care costs each year, a Stanford 
University School of Medicine researcher has found in a new study.

Making workplaces smoke-free would prevent an estimated 610 stroke and heart 
attack deaths in the first year alone, mostly among non-smokers. Over seven 
years, the study projects that more than 2,420 lives and $280 million would be 
saved -- not including the costs associated with other smoking-related 
illnesses or lost productivity.

"The most surprising finding was that the majority of the effects would occur 
in people who are passively exposed to secondhand smoke," said Michael Ong, 
MD, PhD, a fellow at Stanford's Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research 
and at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. He collaborated on 
the study with Stanton Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at UC-San Francisco 
and director of its Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.

    
    

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