It has been a year since the U.S. Surgeon General declared secondhand smoke a hazard to human health and said that the only way to eliminate the dangers of secondhand smoke to children and nonsmoking adults is to create smoke-free environments by stopping all smoking indoors. The Surgeon General stopped short of calling for smoking bans that would create those critical smoke-free environments, but over the past year elected officials and businesses from Washington, D.C., to Oregon have implemented or expanded smoking bans in an effort to protect public health.

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