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You can make a difference!

Tired of not being able to eat out at your favorite restaurant or go to your favorite entertainment venue because you are not willing to breathe secondhand smoke? Or does your workplace allow smoking and you are worried about possible negative health effects?

The Surgeon General of the United States concludes that there is no level of safe exposure to secondhand smoke since there are immediate adverse health effects associated with exposure, even for otherwise healthy adults and children.

So what can you do about it? Here are some suggestions:

Write a letter to the editor of your local paper calling business owners or policy makers to action to enact smoke-free policies.
Talk to your elected officials about the need to protect all residents and workers in your city or town from secondhand smoke.
Talk to business owners and managers and ask them to go smoke-free. Most are willing to consider the possibility of going smoke-free if they know they are in danger of losing your business - and if you never say anything they will not know!

Your local coalition is available to provide materials and factual information to help you understand all of the ways that secondhand smoke effects us as individuals and communities, both physically and economically. Please call us at 283-2649 if there is any way we can help you.