['eat', 'EMEA', 'RNR', 'REN', 'cn', 'ee', 'ne', 'pee', 'hen', 'JUNE', '24,', '1994', ' ', 'thar', 'the', 'bans', 'violated', 'the', 'constitutional', 'rights', 'of', 'government', 'employees', 'who', 'smoke.', 'According', 'to', 'the', 'magistrate,', '“For', 'at', 'least', 'decades,', 'governments', 'accom-', 'modated', 'the', 'competing', 'interests', 'of', 'their', 'smoking', 'and', 'non-smoking', 'employees', 'by', 'completely', 'preferring', 'the', 'interests', 'of', 'the', 'smokers.', 'Now,', 'in', 'light', 'of', 'new', 'evidence', 'on', 'the', 'health', 'risks', 'of', 'environmental', 'tobacco', 'smoke,', 'governments', 'have', 'begun', 'instead', 'to', 'prefer', 'the', 'interests', 'of', 'non-smokers.”', 'See', 'The', 'Plain', 'Dealer,', 'June', '9,', '1994.', 'WORKPLACE:', 'MULTIPLE', 'CHEMICAL', 'SENSITIVITY/HANDICAP', '[23]', 'Texler', 'v.', 'County', 'of', 'Summit', 'Bd.', 'of', 'Mental', 'Retardation', '&', 'Developmental', 'Disabilities,', '1994', 'U.S.', 'App.', 'LEXIS', '£4421', '(U.S.', 'Court', 'of', 'Ap-', 'peals,', 'Sixth', 'Circuit)', '(decided', 'June', '8,', '1994}', 'Affirming', 'the', 'trial', 'court’s', 'culings,', 'the', 'Sixth', 'Circuit', 'Court', 'of', 'Appeals', 'has', 'denied', 'the', 'claims', 'of', 'a', 'woman', 'who', 'alleged', 'that', 'her', 'employer', 'discriminated', 'against', 'her', 'on', 'account', 'of', 'her', 'alleged', 'multiple', 'chemical', 'sensitivity', 'and', 'retaliated', 'against', 'her', 'for', 'filing', 'charges', 'of', 'discrimination', 'with', 'administrative', 'agencies.', 'Plaintiff', 'Merrilu', 'Texler', 'had', 'been', 'employed', 'by', 'an', 'Ohio', 'county', 'agency', 'that', 'provides', 'education', 'and', 'training', 'for', 'mentally', 'retarded', 'and', 'developmentally', 'disabled', 'citizens.', 'She', 'allegedly', 'began', 'experiencing', 'reactions', 'to', 'inhalant', 'chemicals', 'in', '1983', 'while', 'training', 'clients', 'at', 'a', 'plastics', 'factory', 'job', 'site.', 'For', 'the', 'next', 'six', 'years,', 'Texler', 'complained', 'on', 'numerous', 'occasions', 'about', 'her', 'inability', 'co', 'work', 'near', 'smokers,', 'exhaust', 'furnes,', 'photocopy', 'equipment,', 'or', 'officemares', 'who', 'used', 'perfume', 'or', 'cologne.', 'Her', 'employer', 'attempted', 'to', 'accommodate', 'her', 'by', 'changing', 'her', 'work', 'station', 'and', 'job', 'responsibilities.', 'A', 'jury', 'determined', 'that', 'Texler', 'was', 'not', 'handicapped', 'under', 'federal', 'or', 'state', 'law,', 'while', 'the', 'trial', 'court', 'dismissed', 'claims', 'of', 'intentional', 'infliction', 'of', 'emotional', 'distress,', 'assault', 'and', 'battery,', 'negligence,', 'retaliation,', 'and', 'discrimination.', 'In', 'reviewing', 'the', 'evidence,', 'the', 'court', 'of', 'appeals', 'agreed', 'with', 'the', 'trial', "court's", 'rulings,', 'finding', 'that', 'the', 'employer', 'had', 'done', 'what', 'it', 'could', 'to', 'accommodate', 'Texler', 'and', 'had', 'even', 'promoted', 'her', 'during', 'the', 'time', 'that', 'she', 'complained', 'of', 'retaliation.', 'The', 'court', 'noted', 'that', 'Texler', 'herself', '“appears', 'unsure', 'as', 'to', 'precisely', 'how', 'to', 'achieve', 'the', 'chemically', 'pristine', 'environment', 'she', 'requires', 'in', 'which', 'to', 'work.”', ' ', 'LEGAL', 'ISSUES', 'AND', 'DEVELOPMENTS', '[24]', '“The', 'Duty', 'to', 'Warn', 'of', 'ETS’s', 'Dangers:', 'What', 'if', 'Thomas', 'Cipollone', 'Gets', 'Cancer?,”', 'L.P.', 'Warshaw,', 'Journal', 'of', 'Products', 'and', 'Toxics', 'Liability,', 'Vol.', '16,', 'No.', '1,', '1994', 'This', 'article', 'begins', 'with', 'a', 'discussion', 'of', 'the', 'EPA', 'Risk', 'Assessment', 'on', 'ETS', 'and', 'addresses', 'legal', 'theories', 'that', 'could', 'be', 'used', 'by', 'nonsmokers', 'to', 'recover', 'damages', 'from', 'the', 'tobacco', 'industry', 'for', 'injuries', 'purportedly', 'caused', 'by', 'ETS', 'exposure.', 'The', 'author', 'concludes', 'that', 'nonsmokers', 'could', 'probably', 'over-', 'come', 'federal', 'preemption', 'and', 'assumption', 'of', 'the', 'risk', 'defenses', 'and', 'reach', 'the', 'jury', 'on', 'causation', 'under', 'failure', 'to', 'warn,', 'strict', 'liability', 'or', 'absolute', 'liability', 'theories.', 'The', 'author', 'recommends', 'that', 'the', 'tobacco', 'industry', 'begin', 'warning', 'the', 'public', 'about', 'the', 'pur-', 'ported', 'dangers', 'of', 'ETS', 'exposure,', 'either', 'chrough', 'package', 'inserts', 'or', 'intermediaries,', 'such', 'as', 'govern-', 'ment', 'agencies', 'or', 'employers.', 'The', 'article', 'suggests', '“adopting', 'a', 'public', 'law', 'ap-', 'proach', 'for', 'ETS', 'cases,', 'awarding', 'plaintiffs', 'a', 'percent-', 'age', 'of', 'damages', 'based', 'on', 'attributable', 'risk,', 'and', 'holding', 'defendants', 'liable', 'in', 'proportion', 'to', 'their', 'market', 'share.”', 'Under', 'this', 'approach,', 'causation', 'would', 'be', 'established', 'by', 'statistics,', 'and', 'every', 'plaintiff', 'claiming', 'ETS-related', 'injuries,', 'whether', 'or', 'not', 'actually', 'caused', 'by', 'ETS', 'exposure,', 'would', 'be', 'awarded', 'at', 'least', '16', 'percent', 'of', 'actual', 'damages', 'since', '“the', 'probability', 'is', 'only', '16%', 'that', 'any', 'individual’s', 'injury', 'in', 'an', 'ETS-exposure', 'case', 'was', 'caused', 'by', 'ETS.”', '[25]', 'Law', 'Review', 'Symposium', 'on', 'Smokers’', 'and', 'Nonsmokers’', 'Rights', 'The', 'most', 'recent', 'issue', 'of', 'the', 'Saint', 'Louis', 'University', 'Public', 'Law', 'Review', 'contains', 'a', 'symposium', 'on', 'issues', 'related', 'to', 'ETS.', 'Artictes', 'in', 'the', 'symposium', 'are', 'authored', 'by', 'Richard', 'Daynard', 'and', 'James', 'Repace,', 'among', 'others.', 'Subjects', 'addressed', 'include', 'children', 'and', 'ETS', 'in', 'the', 'home,', 'che', 'Americans', 'with', 'Disabili-', 'ties', 'Act', 'and', 'individuals', 'alleging', 'ETS-related', 'disabilities,', 'che', 'Eighth', 'Amendment', 'and', 'ETS', 'in', 'prisons,', 'and', 'smoking', 'in', 'the', 'workplace.', 'The', 'table', 'of', 'contents', 'is', 'attached', 'to', 'this', 'Report', 'as', 'Appendix', 'D;', 'the', 'following', 'item', 'in', 'this', 'Report', 'discusses', 'an', 'ETS', 'conference', 'held', 'at', 'the', 'University', 'in', 'conjunction', 'with', 'the', 'symposium.', 'SPrPLPLes']