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A 5-page paper that examines the affects of smoking in the workplace on both business and nonsmoking coworkers. Discussed is the Environmental Protection Agency's 1992 report concerning the dangers of 'secondhand smoke' and the trend toward smoke-free working environments that this report instigated as well as both employer and employee concerns regarding nonsmoking policies. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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factories and retail stores across America, shoulders hunched against the cold and surrounded by a cloud mixture of carbon dioxide and exhaled cigarette smoke. They are the portion of
Americas workforce known as the smokers, and across the past three decades, they have become the nations newest minority. The majority of businesses and other working environments in America have
over the past few decades implemented rules that ban cigarette smoking in the workplace. This development is due to the national trend that has progressively moved toward creating a
smoke-free America through a series of health campaigns and programs designed to assist smokers in kicking the tobacco habit. It has become clear that this issue, however, borders dangerously on
the edge of the infringement of individual civil rights and presents the question of an employers rights to implement restrictions on a practice that may or may not affect either
worker output or overall production (Grensing-Pophal, 1999). Due to this questionable point, over the past several years a number of surveys and a substantial amount of research have been
dedicated to determining the effects of smoking in the working environment and how these effects directly or indirectly affect company image and production and employee relations. II. Smoking &
The Workplace By the early 1990s, the question of smoking in the workplace had become an issue that saw more active involvement from non-smoking employees. This involvement increased after
1992, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released a report that named cigarette smoke as a Group A carcinogen, which is the classification of only the most dangerous
of elements (Grensing-Pophal, 1999). This report detailed the dangers of "secondhand smoke", the term that has come to refer to the smoke inhaled by nonsmokers through the close proximity
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