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Sabina Shalom

Sabina Shalom (February 2, 1925–) is a British author, public health rights advocate, social worker, and former BBC broadcast journalist. In 1984, she published A Marriage Sabbatical (Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc.) chronicling her solo six month around-the-world voyage which covered 50,000 miles and included visits with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, and King Tauf'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga. A Marriage Sabbatical was re-published by Authors Choice Press, May 2, 2000.

In 1979, Shalom was the first person to challenge a no-smoking ordinance by legal action in court in the state of Florida. She won her case against a neighbor who refused to cease smoking in their apartment building elevator and was subsequently invited to join the board of directors of the Dade-Monroe Lung Association. This landmark case combined with her long tenure with the American Lung Association culminated in the enactment of a national law prohibiting smoking in elevators, department stores, supermarkets, restaurants, airplanes, and the work place.

On October 19, 2010, Shalom was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers in recognition of her efforts to enforce smoke-free public spaces, as well as a career of voluntary services including working with concentration camp survivors at les Maison des Enfants des Déportées (where one of her charges was future Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel), reading to the blind, and hospice volunteering.

Shalom currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland where she cares for her husband who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2006. She is an active speaker and advocate for Alzheimer's awareness.