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...daughter for doing something that is perfectly legal, even if it is frowned upon by the Surgeon General. Hers is one of a growing number of cases, mainly involving children in divorce custody suits, in which judges have prohibited parents from smoking around kids who are sensitive to tobacco. Legal Times reported this month that courts in at least 11 states have dealt with the issue, almost always siding with the nonsmoking parent...
...cabins, office buildings and restaurants, is moving into the home. "Parents exposing their children to secondhand smoke is the most common form of child abuse in America," argues attorney John F. Banzhaf III, the executive director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Banzhaf, a longtime foe of the tobacco industry and mastermind of the child-protection strategy, got a major boost in January, when an Environmental Protection Agency report concluded that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 American adults to die of lung cancer each year. The study also blamed proximity to smoking for hundreds of thousands of cases...
...tobacco industry, which sued the EPA over the report, disputes the court judgments against smoking parents, arguing that the case against secondhand smoke hasn't been proved. In fact, some prominent scientists, including epidemiology expert Alvan Feinstein of the Yale medical school, believe the EPA may have overstated the evidence in its study. Nonetheless, most health researchers agree it is prudent to keep children away from smoke as much as possible...
Saturday: As soon as the young Exonians are off the bus, they charge into a convenience store for a pack of cigarettes. As they puff on that first Marlboro, they feel the tobacco rush through their clean systems, leaving them light-headed and sweaty...
...result of Califano's effort was CASA's Smoke-Free Campus report, released this past August. The report urges colleges and universities to establish campus-wide smoke-free policies, including a ban on the sale, advertising and distribution of all tobacco products and prohibiting the use of the school logo on smoking paraphernalia such as cigarette lighters and ashtrays...