BACKGROUND NOTE: This Tobacco Institute document,
OSHA Projects, outlines the TI's plans
for defeating EPA and OSHA attempts establish standards for secondhand
smoke in the workplace.
The TI was afraid that such standards might
require employers to protect workers by providing separate ventilation
in areas where smoking is allowed. Note how the industry's proposed
research is conclusion-driven, i.e., how the writer specifies what
conclusions their research should find before the research is
undertaken.
Also note the TI's statement that EPA and OSHA are unlikely
to receive any information supportive of the industry's position on ETS
unless the industry itself provides it, and how OSHA is unlikely to
receive information supporting a ventilation standard unless the
industry provides it. These statements are tantamount to an admission
by the industry that it is the sole force opposing these EPA/OSHA
health measures, which is exactly what tobacco control advocates have
claimed for some time.
Anne Landman
American Lung Association of Colorado, West Region Office
Grand Junction
Title: OSHA Projects
Type of Document: Confidential report
Author: N/A
Date: N/A
Page Count: 4
Site: Tobacco Institute document site, http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/
URL:
http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=TIDN0010141/0144
