What Workers Need to Know

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• Tips for talking to smoking customers and visitors.

   

• Workplaces where smoking is prohibited.

   

• What is an "enclosed area"?

   

• Requesting additonal information or filing a complaint.

   

  How do Workers Benefit?

   

• Motivation to cut down on the use of tobacco or to quit smoking.

   

• Protection from secondhand smoke that can cause heart disease, lung cancer and poor respiratory health.

  Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke in the Workplace

• Lung Cancer
  For instance: Food service workers exposed to secondhand smoke at work have a 40-50% elevated risk of lung cancer, even after adjusting for active smoking.

   

• Heart Disease
  For instance: Workers exposed to secondhand smoke have a 35-50% increased risk of heart disease.

   

• Respiratory Diseases
  The effects of secondhand smoke on lung function are similar to that of light smoking and it can cause:

   

  • Emphysema

     

  • Chronic bronchitis

     

  • Asthma attacks

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