Thank you for sending me the March issue of Indoor Air Review. I appreciate your invaluable work of informing your readers on point, including on tobacco smoking conduct (TSC). I particularly noted your page 9 ("ASHRAE Helps Fill IAQ Void in Wake of Government Inaction") assertion that "The failure of federal and state government to address indoor air quality has left much of the policing of the industry to voluntary standards organizations." That statement particularly caught my eye as I am author of "Smoking as Hazardous Conduct," 86 N Y St J Med 493 (Sept. 1986). Therein I call attention to the fact that the federal government has indeed addressed indoor air quality via 29 CFR § 1910.1000, (the workplace safety regulation). The gravamen of my 1986 article is that tobacco smoking conduct [TSC] violates 29 CFR § 1910.1000. Its carbon monoxide is clearly far in excess of the legal limit. Indeed, it is because TSC violates OSHA standards across the board that it is hazardous. If TSC had low levels of toxics, it would not be dangerous. The very first Surgeon General Report as long ago as 1964 lists tobacco chemicals at levels in excess of safe limits. So I cannot agree that the federal government has failed to address indoor air quality. But on the other hand, of course, I must and do admit that it does nothing to "police" compliance. OSHA inspectors simply ignore the hazard. But that is a far different matter than saying there are no standards on point. Additionally, your page 1 caught my eye in stating that Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg and Rep. Dick Durbin "have introduced proposals banning smoking in all federal buildings." Such proposals are obviously redundant and unnecessary. The law (5 USC § 7902.(d)) already orders the federal government to eliminate its hazards, which TSC clearly is. Once again, it is not that there is no law on indoor air quality; the problem is simply the utter disregard of the already extant law on point, i.e., the utter lack of "policing." The solution is simpler, for the President to: a. Order OSHA to enforce 29 CFR § 1910.1000 on TSC in the nation at large; and b. Order federal agencies to eliminate TSC pursuant to 5 USC § 7902.(d). I would . . . encourage you to solicit the input of Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg and Rep. Dick Durbin on point; perhaps they can be persuaded to introduce proposals to order OSHA and federal agencies to enforce the already extant rules. Lastly, as TSC is the No. 1 cause of disability, thus causing high health care costs, I would encourage you to solicit the input of the President as well. Perhaps he will issue orders to OSHA and the federal agencies to enforce the pertinent rules immediately without awaiting a law directing them to do so.