The Tobacco Industry’s Role in the 16 Cities Study of Secondhand Tobacco Smoke: Do the Data Support the Stated Conclusions?
Author(s) -
Richard Barnes,
S. Katharine Hammond,
Stanton A. Glantz
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.9385
Subject(s) - environmental health , tobacco industry , secondhand smoke , tobacco smoke , agency (philosophy) , medicine , public health , smoke , passive smoking , smoking ban , business , engineering , waste management , philosophy , nursing , epistemology , pathology
Since 1996, the tobacco industry has used the 16 Cities Study conclusions that workplace secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposures are lower than home exposures to argue that workplace and other smoking restrictions are unnecessary.
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