In the ongoing effort to limit the non-smoking public's exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke, municipal governments across the country are coming up with increasingly strict bans on smoking in public places—even on public streets and …
Tag: Habits
2010 June
A Burning Issue
The late 1990s saw a surge of nationwide smoking restrictions put into effect. State by state, legislation banning smoking in various settings was proposed and passed into law. With varying amounts of resistance and controversy, workpl…
2010 Feb
Anger Management
For most people, “foaming at the mouth” is just a figure of speech. Attorney Ellen Hirsch de Haan, a managing partner in the Tampa Bay, Florida office of Becker & Poliakoff PA, has encountered the real thing—and not at an animal shelter,…