TY - JOUR T1 - Passive smoking and asthma death JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1117 LP - 1117 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00082008 VL - 32 IS - 4 AU - G. Invernizzi AU - R. Boffi AU - A. Ruprecht AU - A. Lazzaro AU - L. M. Fabbri Y1 - 2008/10/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/32/4/1117.1.abstract N2 - To the Editors: 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 … ER -