Airlines brace for federal anti smoking laws nationwide
New federal rules ban smoking on all domestic flights under two hours starting Saturday. Violators may face up to 1000 dollars. tampering with lavatory alarms carries a 2900 dollar penalty. About 13 600 daily flights affected. Airlines will announce the ban before takeoff and keep no smoking lights on. American Airlines says it has spent over 180 000 dollars and 4500 man hours to comply, with staff instructions and changed boarding passes. It will offer hard candies from the Heart and Lung associations as substitutes for cigarettes.
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Public sees passive smoke harmful in 1986 survey
Government 1986 tobacco-use survey of 13 031 Americans finds 88 percent deem secondhand smoke harmful, 79 percent annoyed by others’ smoke, and 61 percent favor non smoking areas. Among never smokers 82 percent sit in non smoking sections. 42 percent report workplace smoke restrictions.
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Judge says jury to decide smoke liability trial
U S District Judge H Lee Sarokin ruled there is enough evidence for a jury to decide if the tobacco companies conspired to hide smoking dangers while dismissing some claims about marketing a safer cigarette and insufficient research The ruling centers on Liggett Philip Morris and Lorillard in the Cipollone case where Antonio Cipollone seeks damages after his wife died in 1984 The judge noted confidential company files showing strategies to mislead the public and to keep people smoking and warned the jury could award punitive damages if the facts support it.
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