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Monster Essays - Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Tobacco smoking has long been recognized as a major cause of death and
disease, responsible for an estimated 434,000 deaths per year in the United
States. After the Environmental Protection Agency and the Surgeon General
stated that cigarettes cause lung cancer there was a tremendous movement to make
cigarettes illegal. Now the debate is on environmental tobacco smoke also known
as secondhand smoke, passive smoking, and sidestream smoke. The worry is that
when non-smokers are exposed to secondhand smoke they face the same health
hazards as smokers.
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