Secondhand Smoke - Warning: When you smoke, your family smokes.
- Smokers aren’t the only one’s who smoke.
- Give us a little breathing room, if you smoke take it outside.
- Living with a smoker is like inhaling 50 packs of cigarettes a year.
- Secondhand smoke is a 1st rate killer.
- Where should the tobacco industry put the label for people who breathe?
- What the smoker does to himself may be his business, but what the smoker does to the nonsmoker is quite a different matter.
- We are not telling people they can’t smoke, we’re asking them not to smoke in a way that harms others.
- Tobacco use affects everyone. Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death. Every time someone lights a cigarette near you they are potentially harming your health. Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer, other cancer, heart disease and both major and minor illnesses in children.
- Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death in this country killing, 53,000 nonsmokers in the U.S. each year. For every eight smokers the tobacco industry kills, it takes one nonsmoker with them. (Glantz, S.A. &Parmley, W., “Passive Smoking and Heart Disease: Epidemiology, Physiology and Biochemistry,” Circulation, 1991; 83(1):1-12; and Taylor, A. Johnson, D. & Kazemi, H., “Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Cardiovascular Disease,” Circulation, 1992; (86): 699-702.)
- Following the basic laws of physics, secondhand smoke rapidly diffuses throughout a room. It takes more than three hours for 95% of the smoke in a room to dissipate once smoking has ended. (Repace, J. “Risk Management and Passive Smoking at Work and at Home,” St. Louis University Public Law Review, 12(2): 763-785, 1994)
- Many people have higher levels of exposure to secondhand smoke than they believe, much of it stemming from the workplace. 88% of nonsmokers have significant levels of nicotine residue in their blood. (Pirkle, et al., “Exposure of the US Population to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: The Third National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991,” JAMA 275:1233-1240, 1996)
- Given that tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of premature death in the U.S., reducing tobacco use and ETS exposure should be important goals in all Arkansas communities.
- Many employers and employees understand the health hazards of secondhand smoke and support clean indoor air policies. All workers in Arkansas communities deserve the right to breathe clean indoor air and should not have to be exposed to health risks from tobacco smoke in the workplace. (Shopland, Gerlach, Burns et. al,; “State Specific Trends in Smoke-Free Workplace Policy Coverage: The Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplement,” Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 1993-1999)
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