Woes in smoke-filled rooms
Nonsmokers have been fighting for years to get smoking banned from public places. They argue that the habit subjects nonsmokers to unpleasant odors and eye irritation. Smokers have countered that as long as they are not hurting anyone except themselves they have a right to do as they please. That reply has now been undermined by researchers at the University of California at San Diego who found that long-term exposure to cigarette smoke causes measurable lung damage in people who do not smoke.
The study, reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine by Physiologist James White and...
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