title: The physician's role in helping smoke-sensitive patients to use the Americans with Disabilities Act to secure smoke-free workplaces and public spaces.
abstract: Many persons suffer from a variety of conditions that render them particularly vulnerable to injuries caused by environmental tobacco smoke. Fortunately, the Americans With Disabilities Act may provide such patients with a legal right to a smoke-free environment. We examine herein how the act can be used by these patients, how the act works, and how physicians, who often advise such patients to seek smoke-free environments, can help their patients obtain the clean air to which they are entitled under law.
authors.affiliation: Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Mass, USA.
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Parmet
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Daynard
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gottlieb
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D033222:Judicial Role; D010819:Physician's Role; D011634:Public Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution