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Smoking Ban Helps Reduce Passive Smoking

Every year, hundreds of people in the UK die from lung cancer believed to have been caused from exposure to secondhand smoke. One reason why secondhand smoke is dangerous is that it contains cancer causing chemicals in higher concentrations than are inhaled by the smoker. Studies have found that living with a smoker can increase your risk of getting lung cancer by 20 to 30 per cent. [click link for full article]

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/smoking/

"You really have to be committed to quitting smoking," says Celia Jaffe Winchell, M.D., a psychiatrist and FDA's medical team leader for addiction drug products, "and when you've made the decision to stop smoking, commit to using whatever it takes to quit."