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...commission's recommendations come after a study released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this past January 1993 which designated second-hand smoke as a Group A carcinogen, placing it among the most serious of all cancer-causing agents, and the cause of 3,000 lung cancer deaths in non-smokers per year...
Marion R. Herz, an environmental protection specialist in the EPA's Indoor Air Division, cited respiratory tract irritation, colds, sore throats and cancer as the major effects of second-hand smoke on college-aged young adults...
...EPA recommends that smoking should be banned outright indoors," Herz said. "If not, smoking should be limited to a separately ventilated smoking room and the air must be exhausted outside of the building...
...story yesterday about an EPA grant incorrectly identified a professor who a student said is involved with the grant. The professor is Associate Professor of Government Paul Pierson...
...have no names for you; I never really had acontact person on the EPA and all of my financialpapers are still in Washington D.C.," Fine said...