Is your job killing you? It may be, if you are breathing in colleagues' cigarette smoke.
Jump to full article: Gulf Daily News (bh), 2004-10-09
Author: SARA HORTON reports.
Intro: If your company allows smoking in the office or you work in the hospitality business, there's often little you can do about it except find another job.
Many non-smokers may find others lighting up in their workplace an irritation, but few realise how much it can damage their health.
Although there's no doubt that puffing away on a cigarette is deadlier than simply breathing in the smoke in the air, anti-smoking campaigner Dr Babu Ramachandran says that passive smokers still receive about 50 to 60 per cent of the negative effects. . . .
"It should be done step by step," observed Dr Ramachandran.
"First ban smoking in the workplace, then restrict the time people can go out to smoke, then totally ban smoking inside and outside the building.
"After that you can ban smoking in public places, even at bus stops.
"This is already being implemented in India."
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