Passive smoking and asthma death
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Passive smoking and asthma death.
In 1998 during a flight from Athens (Greece) to San Francisco (CA, USA), A.M. Hanson, an asthmatic doctor aged 52 yrs, died due to an asthmatic reaction to second-hand cigarette smoke. In 2004, the US Supreme Court ruled that Olympic Airways was to pay the widow of A.M. Hanson US$1.4 million. This successful lawsuit by a passenger against an airline over smoking was unprecedented, and smoking o...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00082008