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Indoor smoking bans: Are they creating unhealthy outdoor zones for secondhand smoke?

With the growing number of smoking bans in restaurants and bars driving smokers outside, researchers in Athens, Ga., are hoping to find out whether secondhand smoke from smokers clustered outside these establishments is posing a health hazard of its own.

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