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Smoke Gets in Your Lungs

California becomes the first in the nation to declare secondhand tobacco smoke a toxic air pollutant.

California is the first state in the U.S. to declare secondhand smoke a toxic air contaminant. EPA research has shown that exposure is linked with asthma, abnormal cardiovascular development, and breast cancer in pre-menopausal women. Living on Earth’s Ashley Ahearn reports.

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