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...dangers of secondhand smoke have been hard to pin down. Now a report says women who live with smokers have a 30% higher risk of lung cancer than those who live in smoke-free homes -- a risk that is still nowhere near that of smokers...
...getting lung cancer than women in a smoke-free household. The research effort, the largest of its kind, also found that the more the mate smoked, the greater the risk for the woman. But even women without a smoking spouse increase their chances of lung cancer through exposure to secondhand smoke at work or in social settings, the study found...
Maher is rarely so up front or over the top with his opinions, though some subjects set him off. He thinks, for example, that the antismoking campaign has gone too far. "Here in New York City, they're getting very huffy about secondhand smoke," he says. "I'm a little more worried about secondhand bullets." More typically, he serves up deflating punch lines that provide commentary only obliquely. On gangster rappers toting guns: "It's nice to see for once a celebrity actually using the product they endorse." On '70s chic: "Will Americans get nostalgic for anything, or is there...
...irrefutable medical evidence on secondhand smoke," says Mark Green, New York City public advocate and a longtime supporter of antismoking measures, "has been the booster rocket launching the antismoking movement into orbit." Notes an EPA official: "We had no real sense of how big this report was going to be. But it has become the major catalyst for the reforms we're seeing all over the country...
...couldn't form these opinions myself. I could only rely on the secondhand testimony of someone 1500 miles away from the arena in which it happened...