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Article: Secondhand smoke kills too: report
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- June 28, 2006
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Secondhand smoke clearly kills people and the only way to control
it is to ban smoking in all workplaces, US Surgeon-General Dr Richard
Carmona said yesterday.
In a report aimed at echoing the landmark 1964 Surgeon General's
report that first laid out the dangers of smoking, Carmona detailed
the effects of secondhand smoke and said no one should be forced to
inhale it.
"Secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children
and in adults who do not smoke," the report reads.
"Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk for
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), acute respiratory infections,
ear problems and more severe asthma," it adds.
"Smoking by parents causes ...