Secondhand Smoke Collection

  

The Secondhand Smoke Collection is comprised of documents from the following sources:

Proposition 65 California Secondhand Smoke Litigation

This collection contains documents produced in a case brought by California Attorney General John Van de Kamp alleging that eight supermarkets and 26 tobacco companies violated California’s Proposition 65 by not appropriately warning the public about the dangers of secondhand smoke. Proposition 65, also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, requires the state to maintain a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm in humans. Corporations exposing the public to these chemicals are required to notify the public, usually in the form of warning labels and signs, that they are being exposed.
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State of Washington, Secondhand Smoke

Contains documents from the 1998 lawsuit Aviation West Corp. v. Washington State Dept. of Labor and Industries obtained through a public records request made by Prof. Lisa Bero.

In 1993, the State of Washington's Department of Labor and Industry filed proposed indoor air quality regulations, including one that was aimed at eliminating secondhand smoke exposures (referred to in the documents as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)) in private workplaces. Five major cigarette manufacturers (B&W, American Tobacco, Lorillard, Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds) and three Washington businesses brought a suit against the State arguing the regulation on smoking in private workplaces was invalidly enacted. Both trial and appellate courts upheld the regulation.
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