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Environmental Issues: Secondhand Smoke

How dangerous is secondhand smoke? Learn about the health and environmental effects of secondhand smoke, and the legislative issues of secondhand smoke.
Secondhand Smoke: The Basics of Secondhand Smoke and Its Effect on Human Health
Even if you're a nonsmoker, cigarettes (or cigars or pipes) may be hazardous to your health, because of the secondhand smoke you end up inhaling whenever you are around people who are smoking. Learn more about secondhand smoke and how you can protect yourself and your family from its serious health effects.
U.S. Surgeon General Reports Indisputable Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
The U.S. Surgeon General has declared secondhand smoke a hazard to human health and says the only way to eliminate the dangers to children and nonsmoking adults is to create smoke-free environments by stopping all smoking indoors--but he stopped short of calling for smoking bans that would do just that.

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