Most People Exposed To Secondhand Smoke

American Voices

January 4, 2010 | ISSUE 46•01

According to the World Health Organization, over 94 percent of people around the globe are unprotected from secondhand smoke. What do you think?

94%? Wow, how are my kids ever going to resist the peer pressure to start secondhand smoking?"

Glenn Cronise
Systems Analyst
It may be too late for us, but at least we can help protect the jackets and pants of our children."

Layla Shutt
Unemployed
I want to care about this but its fighting for attention from the part of me usually reserved to worry about birds getting caught in used plastic six pack rings at landfills."

Paul Richie
Rock Splitter

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