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passive smoking the inhalation of smoke from other people's cigarettes by a nonsmoker How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``As the effects of secondhand smoking are becoming better known, the public is looking at agencies, such as cities, to protect them. A Pan American Health Organization study of more than 10,000 pages of internal documents from Latin America's leading tobacco venders, British American Tobacco and Philip Morris, found that Big Tobacco is doing all it can to derail the anti-smoking drive, lobbying lawmakers to allow "light" and mild" labels on cigarette packages, hiring scientists to counter evidence of the effects of secondhand smoking, and pressuring, even bribing, elected officials not to vote for the treaty. But more than 20 years of research were necessary, following the landmark 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Health Consequences of Smoking, before the public became aware of the dangers of passive or secondhand smoking. |
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