Smoking in the workplace: Balancing smoker and nonsmoker rights

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-133

  Paul, Robert J ^a   Townsend, James B ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Legal issues in workplace smoking; Smoke free work areas; Smoking in workplace; Work related consequences of smoking; Workplace smoking bans

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749084625     PISSN: 08927545     EISSN: 15733378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022117005915     Document Type: Article

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