The physician's role in helping smoke-sensitive patients to use the Americans with Disabilities Act to secure smoke-free workplaces and public spaces
W. E. Parmet, R. A. Daynard and M. A. Gottlieb
Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Mass, USA.
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.
