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Better health twice as likely for nonsmokers who live and work with smoking restrictions
05-16-2007 · EurekAlert!In the first study of its kind to evaluate how smoking restrictions in the workplace and at home affect health status, researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health found that nonsmokers who live under both a total household and total workplace smoking ban are over two and a half times more likely to report better health than those without smoking bans.
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