State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Secondhand Smoke Rules and Policies in Homes and Workplaces --- United States, 2005

A Minute of Health with CDC
December 1, 2006

[Announcer] This podcast is presented by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. CDC – safer, healthier people.

[Matthew Reynolds] How many times in a smoky restaurant or at work have you
worried about the effects of secondhand smoke? It is a health danger. Children
who breathe secondhand smoke have more frequent respiratory infections.
Exposed adults have a higher risk of heart disease and lung cancer.

How safe is your home or workplace? To answer this question, CDC researchers
surveyed adults about rules restricting smoking in their homes and workplaces.

About twenty percent of adults reported smoking in each state surveyed. In the
majority of states surveyed, over seventy percent of individuals reported not
allowing smoking in their homes. A similar percentage reported their employer
had policies which kept their workplace smoke-free.

The only way to protect yourself and your family from secondhand smoke is to
eliminate smoking indoors. To do your part, ensure that smokers in your home
smoke outside and bring up concerns at work to your employer.

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