ALLINSTITUTIONSMUST RESPOND to environmental pressures, and libraries are no exception. In the last few years libraries have experienced severe erosion in purchasing power at a time when budgets are becoming tighter, the demands for service are becoming louder and more articulate, and the world of publication is redesigning the way information is made available. In general, libraries must do mo...

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BACKGROUND The tobacco industry has formed regional environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) consultants programs in order to generate controversy on the issue of secondhand smoke (SHS) in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Only those countries in which the industry foresaw SHS restrictions were included. This paper describes the European and Asian components of the tobacco industry's worldwide ETS consu...

Objectives-To examine patterns of cause specific mortality in NHS hospital consultants according to their specialty and to assess these in the context of potential occupational exposures. Methods-A historical cohort assembled from Department of Health records with follow up through the NHS Central Register involving 18 358 male and 2168 female NHS hospital consultants employed in England and Wa...