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Calabasis California has passed the first law in the US banning smoking in any public place, indoor or outdoor.
 
This follows a move by the California Air Resources Board which classified second-hand smoke as a toxic air contaminant.
 
Health officials say that thousands of non-smoking Californians die each year of heart disease and cancer related to second hand smoke.

US city to pass landmark secondary-smoke law

Independent Online - 3/16/2006 6:11 AM

"People have a right to breathe clean air. It is time to stand up to the challenges, the critics and to tobacco interests," Calabasas Mayor Barry Groveman told a news conference on Wednesday.
 
The law passed unanimously last month by the city council in the affluent canyon community of 21 000 people northwest of Los Angeles.
 
The ban means an end to smokers huddling outside the entrances of offices, lighting up on outdoor restaurant patios, or puffing on their apartment balconies if they are near common areas such as pools o
 
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