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The US Surgeon General confirmed what was long suspected: secondhand smoke is dangerous, leading to about 50,000 deaths a year in the US. 
 
Smoking can cause or aggravate diseases such as lung cancer, breast cancer, childhood cancers, asthma and heart disease. It has also been associated with sudden infant death syndrome. 
 
The Surgeon General recommends banning smoking in all public buildings (as 16 states have already done) and urging parents not to smoke in their homes.

Study Cites 'Indisputable' Evidence Against Secondhand Smoke

Los Angeles Times - 6/27/2006 8:21 PM

Twenty years after the first surgeon general's report on secondhand smoke, the evidence is now "indisputable" that the noxious fumes are a major health threat that kills an estimated 50,000 people each year, a new federal study said Tuesday.
 
There is no level of exposure to smoke that is safe, and the children of smokers are at special risk, Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona said in releasing the new report
 
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Comment On: Surgeon General Reports on Secondhand Smoke
Posted by Melissa Barnes on 12/20/2007 | Filed Under: Lung Cancer

now that they have proof that second-hand smoke damages lungs are there any class-action suits filed? I am a life-long nonsmoker, raised by two very heavy smokers and suffer from, what I beleve,lung and esophageal damage and early dementia due to second-hand smoke. I am only 53.


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