Monday, December 31, 2007

How many deaths will it take? : a death from asthma associated with work-related environmental tobacco smoke

(Disponible en anglais seulement.)

Case report of an acute asthma death of a young waitress in a bar. Evaluation of the circumstances of her death and her medical history concluded that her death was from acute asthma due to secondhand smoke at work. Effective measures to protect hospitality industry workers from ETS are necessary from a public health point of view.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.20538

Comment: Yet another waitress suffers Heather Crowe's fate.