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If you, or someone in your family, smokes and you have children,
then it is important to ensure that they are not the recipients of
secondhand cigarette smoke. Secondhand smoke is scientifically
correlated with a range of illnesses from asthma to cancer to heart
disease, and it is even more damaging to children. Read on...
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