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Article: U.S. public health efforts have helped reduce secondhand smoke, lead found in body, CDC says
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- AP Worldstream
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- January 31, 2003
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Dateline: ATLANTA
Public health efforts in the United States have helped reduce the
amount of chemicals from secondhand cigarette smoke and lead in the
body, although they are still too high in many people, federal officials
reported Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took blood and urine
samples from 2,500 people in 1999 and 2000 and tested for 116 different
chemicals, including metals, pesticides, insect repellants and disinfectants.
In the early 1990s, 4.4 percent of children ages 1 to 5 had elevated
levels of lead, but that dropped to 2.2 percent in 1999-2000.
To gauge the effect of secondhand smoke, the CDC tested for nonsmokers
for cotinine, ...