Health Law

The Nose Knows (Or Why Smoking Should Be Banned Everywhere)
According to a recent Harvard study, published in this month's journal of Pediatrics, there isn't just first-hand and second-hand smoke, now there is another kind of smoke to fear: third-hand smoke...

Third-Hand Smoke: Experts Warn of Threat of Smell of Smoking
After courts and commentators have wrestled with the dangers of second-hand smoke, it appears that there is now third-hand smoke: the smell that lingers on smokers when they come back into a house or office...

2 women accused of letting 2-year-old smoke at Ponderosa
Story is from Wisconsin. I'm more concerned about his other bad habit: The aunt told police that the boy often says "smoke, smoke" and sometimes takes cigarettes out of the pack and puts them in his mouth...

Katz on Smoke-Filled Rooms
Ellen D. Katz (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Smoke-Filled Rooms on SSRN. Here is the abstract:The smoke-filled room is making a comeback. Condemned as a corrupt, anti-democratic means for nominating candidates to public office, the smoke-filled room has...

Child + Cigarette + Car = Crime
California is the third state to make it a crime to smoke in your car when a minor is a passenger. Championed by Senator Jenny Oropeza, a cancer survivor, the law was passed as a cancer-prevention measure to protect children from second-hand smoke...

An ADA right to smoke-free eateries
Thus argues a lawsuit filed by James Bogden against four restaurants in Alexandria, Va., which "seeks to require the restaurants to become smoke-free, arguing that they must accommodate Bogden's disability, coronary artery disease, and eliminate secondhand smoke so he can eat at them...

Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Failure

Kidde
Recalls Dual Sensor Smoke Alarms

Ballot Device
Election Systems and Software agrees to pays city of San Francisco $3.5 million settlement after problems with AutoMARK lead to prolonged hand counting of votes.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...