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Am. J. Ind. Med. 51:111-116, 2008. Volume 51, Issue 2 , Pages 111 - 116
Jump to full article: American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2008-02-09
Intro: Results
The waitress collapsed at the bar where she worked and was declared dead shortly thereafter. Evaluation of the circumstances of her death and her medical history concluded that her death was from acute asthma due to environmental tobacco smoke at work.
Conclusions
This is the first reported acute asthma death associated with work-related ETS. Recent studies of asthma among bar and restaurant workers before and after smoking bans support this association. This death dramatizes the need to enact legal protections for workers in the hospitality industry from secondhand smoke.
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