Smoking and the Workplace

Smoking and the Workplace is the first comprehensive global study of attempts to control the level of tobacco smoke in the workplace environment. In four introductory essays, distinguished authors investigate such basic issues as the human right to smoke tobacco and the economic right to market it, with serious caveats from the International Labour Organisation and the European Union. The survey then proceeds with thirteen national reports from European, Asian, and North American countries. Among the approaches to the underlying problems, the book addresses the following: - company policies regarding smoking; - production locations and markets; - international trade flow; - the threat of litigation; - public health; - declining employment; - corporate strategies; - government limitations, warnings, and advertising bans; - concentration of production; - employment level; and - the impact of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2003).