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Second-Hand Smoke

The purpose of the study is to examine the ways in which business organizations have responded to concerns regarding the ill-effects of second-hand smoke in the workplace. Specifically, the purpose of the study is to determine how business managers perceive the problem of second-hand smoke and how they and their organizations have responded to this health concern. It has been theorized that employees who breathe in their co-workers' cigarette smoke are significantly more at risk for the development of negative health conditions and significantly more likely to take sick leave than workers who are not exposed to workplace tobacco smoke (Second-hand smoke..., 2000).

Numerous epidemiological studies undertaken since 1982 purport to show an association between passive or involuntary smoking and disease. Davis (1997) states that studies have demonstrated a relationship between passive smoking and 3,000 annual deaths from lung cancer and between 35,000 and 62,000 deaths from heart disease. Other studies indicate that passive smoking plays a role in cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, asthma, middle ear infection, and low birth weight as well as sudden infant death among children (Davis, 1997).

At the same time, there is evidence that these epidemiological studies, which have led to strict regulation of workplace smoking by government agencies and private sector firms alike, may have been either flawed methodologically or have led to an overestimation of a potential health risk (Copas & Shi, 2000). While it is not the purpose of this report to examine the validity and reliability of the scientific studies either confirming or refuting the putative effects of second-hand smoke in the workplace, the study will consider these effects as part of its larger purpose of determining how business organizations deal with the issue and the most effective managerial responses to the problem.

For better than two decades, members of th...

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