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Wendy E. Parmet, JD; Richard A. Daynard, JD, PhD; Mark A. Gottlieb, JD

JAMA. 1996;276(11):909-913.

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.

Author Affiliations
From Northeastern University School of Law (Ms Parmet and Dr Daynard) and the Tobacco Control Resource Center (Mr Gottlieb), Boston, Mass.

Footnotes
Reprints: Mark A. Gottlieb, JD, Tobacco Control Resource Center, 102 The Fenway, Suite 118, Boston, MA 02115.

Health Law and Ethics section editors: Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, the Georgetown/ Johns Hopkins University Program on Law and Public Health, Washington, DC, and Baltimore, Md; Helene M. Cole, MD, Contributing Editor, JAMA.

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