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Article: STATE HEALTH STUDY SHOWS DRAMATIC DROP IN SECONDHAND SMOKE EXPOSURE FOR NEW YORKERS SINCE STATE CLEAN INDOOR AIR ACT TOOK EFFECT IN 2003
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 19, 2007
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The New York State Department of Health issued the following news release: New Yorkers are breathing cleaner air thanks to the state's Clean Indoor Air Act that took effect in July 2003, a new study shows.
The law, which banned smoking in all indoor areas, including restaurants and bars, has reduced non-smoking adults' exposure to tobacco smoke by almost half, according to the state Department of Health study published today in the "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report," a publication of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"This is the first time a scientific study has compared non-smokers' exposure to tobacco smoke before and after enactment of a clean indoor air law," ...