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Smoking in Public, Safe or Not?


According to a article titled "Restricting Smoking in Public Places?" published in the July 21, 1986 U.S. News and World Report, five thousand people die each year because they have breathed someone else's smoke (65).This finding alone should be enough to encourage smokers to consider the health of those non-smokers around them before they light a cigarette in a public place. However this does not seem to be the case considering the results of a more recent conducted in 1997 which shows that the five thousand deaths per year in 1986 due to secondhand smoke has drastically increased to thirty eight thousand deaths per year, three thousand due to lung cancer and thirty five thousand due to heart disease (1997). Is smoking a cigarette while you eat lunch really worth the life of the innocent seven year old sitting across the restaurant? I think not.
I am appalled that even with these findings owners of restaurants and other businesses......

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