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=== 70% of smokers want to stop === | === 70% of smokers want to stop === | ||
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=== The Environmental Protection Agency has identified secondhand smoke as a Class A carcinogen. === | === The Environmental Protection Agency has identified secondhand smoke as a Class A carcinogen. === | ||
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| + | === Exposure to secondhand smoke increases a child’s risk for asthma attacks, pneumonia, ear infections and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome === | ||
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| + | === Studies indicate that secondhand smoke can cause cancer, emphysema, heart attacks and strokes in adult nonsmokers === | ||
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Revision as of 14:11, 9 June 2012
Contents
- 1 Comments on their sound bites
- 1.1 Tobacco is the first avoidable cause of mortality in the world
- 1.2 There is no safe level of exposure for ETS, Secondhand smoke is in the same category of carcinogens as asbestos and benzene.
- 1.3 70% of smokers want to stop
- 1.4 The Environmental Protection Agency has identified secondhand smoke as a Class A carcinogen.
- 1.5 Exposure to secondhand smoke increases a child’s risk for asthma attacks, pneumonia, ear infections and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- 1.6 Studies indicate that secondhand smoke can cause cancer, emphysema, heart attacks and strokes in adult nonsmokers
