Thursday, November 01, 2007

Passive smoking rates drop by 95% among hospitality workers

Early returns from an indoor smoking ban in England:

The study for charity Cancer UK and carried out by the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre in Warwick found non-smoking hospitality workers had four times less cotinine - a byproduct of nicotine and an indicator of tobacco smoke exposure - in their saliva in August than they had in June.

They calculated that, on average, employees' exposure was the equivalent to smoking 190 cigarettes a year before the legislation, and that this had fallen to the equivalent of around 44 cigarettes since.


via dailydose.net

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello Jason

Thats really a great news to know...its working :)

''Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 438,000 American lives each year, including those affected indirectly, such as babies born prematurely due to prenatal maternal smoking and victims of "secondhand" exposure to tobacco's carcinogens.''