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AGREE | DISAGREE | NO OPINION or DON'T KNOW |
Seeing someone smoke turns me off | 67 | 22 | 10 |
I'd rather date people who don't smoke | 86 | 8 | 6 |
It's safe to smoke for only a year or two | 7 | 92 | 1 |
Smoking can help you when you're bored | 7 | 92 | 1 |
Smoking helps reduce stress | 21 | 78 | 3 |
Smoking helps keep your weight down | 18 | 80 | 2 |
Chewing tobacco and snuff cause cancer | 95 | 2 | 3 |
I strongly dislike being around smokers | 65 | 22 | 13 |
Secondhand smoke is the name for
the sickening, poisonous smoke given off by a burning
cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Smokers may claim to have a
right to smoke, but nonsmokers have a more important
right to breathe safe air. So the next time one of your
friends lights up in front of you, fire off these facts
about secondhand smoke.
Secondhand smoke can produce six times the pollution of a busy highway when in a crowded restaurant. | |
Secondhand smoke causes 30 times as many lung cancer deaths as all regulated pollutants combined. | |
Secondhand smoke makes clothes and hair stink. | |
Secondhand smoke causes wheezing, coughing, colds, earaches, and asthma attacks. | |
Secondhand smoke fills the air with many of the same poisons found in the air around toxic waste dumps. | |
Secondhand smoke wrecks the smell and taste of food. | |
Secondhand smoke causes reddening, itching, and watering of the eyes. | |
Secondhand smoke kills about 3,000 nonsmokers each year from lung cancer. | |
Secondhand smoke causes up to 300,000 lung infections (such as pneumonia and bronchitis) in infants and young children each year. |
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