Heather Cross breathed in secondhand smoke as she worked for 40 years in an Ottowa restaurant; she now has advanced, inoperable lung cancer.

People who are routinely exposed to a lot of second-hand smoke, such as workers in bars and restaurants, can see their risk of lung cancer triple, a new study says.

Washington state factsheet and short notes on secondhand smoke, its effects and how to reduce exposure to it at the workplace.

Article from the American Lung Association of California. In the fourth year of California's smokefree workplace law, contrary to the dire predictions of the tobacco industry, restaurants are booming in California, tourism is up, and the hospitality industry is doing good business. And the number of Californians protected from secondhand smoke has grown tremendously.

Fully footnoted factsheets on health and economic aspects.

1991 report on occupational exposure to secondhand smoke and its effects.

Resources of use to any smokefree worksite, including health effects of workplace exposure to secondhand smoke, benefits to employers of going smokefree, and extensive findings of a task force investigating smokefree workplaces.

Based on a study of 32,000 nurses; nurses who were regularly exposed to secondhand smoke by their co-workers or home companions had a 91% higher risk of a heart attack or death; nurses with occasional exposure to secondhand smoke had a 58% greater risk.

Blue-collar and service workers are exposed to more secondhand smoke on the job than other employees.

Non-smokers' productivity suffers when their colleagues light up, say researchers.