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...participants—who are regular smokers??consented to wearing the device, which captures two and a half minute clips every hour. Before returning the EAR to the researchers, participants had the option of deleting any recordings they didn’t want heard, Wang said. The audio files were then transcribed and coded to determine any common themes in participants’ conversations, locations, and activities related to smoking...
...Additionally, 95.4 percent of nonsmokers said they thought that secondhand smoke is damaging to children’s health, compared to 84.1 percent of smokers. The researchers also found that nonsmokers’ households were more likely to enforce strict rules against smoking in their homes than those of smokers??88.4 percent versus 26.7 percent. They concluded that emphasizing that third-hand smoke harms children’s health may be important in persuading adults to prohibit smoking at home, Winickoff said. Joan Friebely, one of the study’s co-authors, as well as an instructor...
...said that children are “the only place where they’re going to get new smokers??they call them replacement smokers...
...like they would have a place to smoke anyway. With public smoking bans (covering bars, restaurants, and the like) spreading like weeds, suddenly the idea of leaving people free to choose a smoking or non-smoking establishment seems shockingly primitive. Under the pressure of non-smokers?? “rights,” dour paternalism, and shaky science, personal liberty—of property and body—has been eviscerated...
Helfer, who said he works at the Harvard Law School library, said he is the co-founder of Cambridge Citizens for Smokers?? Rights...