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Article: Have smoke will travel: Americans are finding that it's not whether or not secondhand smoke is harmful, but rather how harmful.
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- December 1, 2007
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Fueling renter demand for no-smoking apartments is the 2006 U.S. Surgeon General's report, "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke," which warns that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke, and that "even small amounts of secondhand smoke exposure can be harmful to people's health."
The report includes a discussion of the dangers of secondhand tobacco smoke in apartment housing and how the smoke travels from one apartment into others, and recommends that apartment owners and community managers begin voluntarily implementing no-smoking policies.
Community owners and managers may receive resident complaints ...