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Bar workers who smoke also benefit from smoking ban

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

The health of bar workers, who actively smoke cigarettes, significantly improves after the introduction of a smoking ban, reveals research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.





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Case links death to environmental tobacco smoke

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A young asthmatic woman who collapsed and died shortly after arriving for her shift as a waitress at a bar may be the first reported death to be reported nationally from acute asthma associated with environmental tobacco ...


Bar workers suffer from customer smoking

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 30, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Health officials in Oregon say people absorb notable levels of the carcinogen NNK after spending just a few hours in a smoky bar or tavern.


Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 16, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A national workplace ban on smoking in Ireland resulted in an 83 percent reduction in air pollution in pubs, an 80 percent decrease in airborne carcinogens for patrons and staff, and an improvement in the respiratory health ...


Anti-smoking law helps waiters to quit smoking

Anti-smoking law helps waiters to quit smoking

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Oncology have studied the impact of the law banning smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants on those working in these places. The results are positive ...


New insight in nerve cell communication

New insight in nerve cell communication

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Communication between nerve cells is vital for our bodies to function. Part of this communication happens through vesicles containing signalling molecules called neurotransmitters. The vesicle fuses with the ...


Biochip allows genes to express themselves

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 13, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Biochip platforms that work as artificial cells are attractive for medical diagnostics, interrogation of biological processes, and for the production of important biomolecules. However, to match the complexity of nature, ...


Chart junk? How pictures may help make graphs better

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Those oft-maligned, and highly embellished, graphs and charts in USA Today and other media outlets may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs, according to new research from North Carolina ...


Smoke-free laws have no impact on employee turnover

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Supporting the argument that smoke-free laws do not damage the hospitality industry, restaurants that ban cigarette smoking haven’t suffered from increased employee turnover, according to a new report published in the current ...


Shift working aggravates metabolic syndrome development among middle-aged males

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shift work exposures can accelerate metabolic syndrome (MetS) development among the large population of middle-aged males with elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT). Elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (e-ALT) is a ...


Study: Restoring lost privileges an overlooked key to discipline

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Managers who dole out discipline by taking away privileges - without considering the implications of restoring them - are missing a key in their bid to improve performance and behavior, a new University of Illinois study ...



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