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Secondhand smoke exposure reduced for children living with smokefree air laws (Harvard School of Public Health)

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A new Harvard School of Public Health study, published online in the June 7, 2010 issue of Pediatrics, found that children and adolescents living in non-smoking homes in counties with laws promoting smoke-free public places have significantly lower levels of a common biomarker of secondhand smoke exposure than those living in counties with no smoke-free laws. Click here to read the press release. Click here to read the abstract.