Indiana

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...

Third-Hand Smoke
The New York Times reports on the new term - third-hand smoke. Apparently smoking is even worse than we thought in terms of lingering air pollution. The story states, Parents who smoke often open a window or turn on a...

Choosing a Smarter Smoke Alarm
Smoke detectors prevent burn injuries, smoke inhalation, fire fatalities, and other personal injuries related to fire because they alert house inhabitants that a fire has started. Smoke alarms give victims a warning system so that they can safely escape a burning building, but not all smoke detectors are built the same...

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...

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...

Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Failure

Kidde
Recalls Dual Sensor Smoke Alarms

Westinghouse
alleging that former Westinghouse employees are being deprived of a choice in health care prescription plan benefits that were formerly available to them through union bargaining.

Albertsons et al.
allegedly injected dye into farm raised salmon to make it appear more palatable.

Holiday Inn Express
Complimentary simplySmartâ„¢ "Remove" Make Up Remover Recalled

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...