Sentences with phrase «over second hand smoke»

Many of the smoking bans of the 1990s were enacted because companies and institutions feared that they would be sued over second hand smoke.

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Professor Alastair Lewis, from York's Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, said: «Over 40 per cent of children have at least one smoking parent and whereas there is a general public awareness about the harms of second hand smoke, there is little knowledge about the dangers of third hand smoke.

There are a lot of things in our modern everyday lives that we do not have much control over: second hand smoke, pollution, working in an office cubicle, to name a few.

Is it not plausible that instead of a situation existing where scientists — in some cases the same scientist — use identical tactics behind cancerous second - hand smoke and ozone depletion denial to sow disinformation over climate science which delays political action, that we instead have — in some cases — the same small clique of enviro - activists (none of whom possessing science expertise to prove Dr Singer's atmospheric assessments are disinformation) attempting to prop up unsupportable political agendas through the use of character assassination disinformation?

The EPA's seminal achievements over almost 50 years include removing lead from gasoline; reducing acid rain to improve water quality; reducing second - hand smoke exposure; improving vehicle efficiency and emission controls; and encouraging a shift to rethinking of wastes as materials.

One federal judge appointed him to represent prisoners in a collective action over second - hand tobacco smoke (a case that resulted in compensation for the clients and the banning of tobacco from Maryland's prisons), another asked him to serve on the U.S. District Court's task force regarding electronic discovery, and the Chief Judge asked him to serve on that court's bench - bar subcommittee on attorneys» fees.