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Step Up to Ensure You Get Clean Air to Breathe

If someone were polluting the air in your favorite local park with arsenic, lead, and DDT, would you be ticked off? What about the air in your favorite local restaurant? You probably think you understand the hazards of secondhand cigarette smoke, but you might not know that it contains a toxic soup of more than 4,000 chemicals, including arsenic, lead, and DDT, and that 69 of those chemicals are probable or known carcinogens. Protect your right to breathe clean air indoors as well as out: Tell Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson that you want eateries and other public spaces in the U.S. to be smoke-free.