AOL HEALTH: No Smoking signs are popping up at some apartment complexes and condos, barring people from lighting up even in their own homes…
“A lot of the demand is just coming from people realizing that smoke doesn’t stay in one unit,” said Rita Turner, deputy director of the Center for Tobacco, Regulation, Litgation and Advocacy at the University of Maryland Law School. “Buildings are designed to breathe.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say secondhand smoke can cause asthma, respiratory and ear infections, sudden infant death syndrome, heart disease and lung cancer. “There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke,” the agency says on its website. (more)
