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flickr photo courtesy of lanier67 Look around next time you ride a Metro bus or train. The person next to you may have asthma or be allergic to cigarette smoke. Judging from the comments on a recently launched Change.org petition calling on WMATA to enforce its no-smoking policy, there are quite a few Metro passengers who [...] Flickr photo courtesy of brownpau Jamie Berke got one whiff too many of secondhand smoke while on the Washington, D.C., Metro system. So she decided to act. She has launched a petition to protect Metro bus and train passengers from the toxins. Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer and heart disease, and aggravates respiratory illnesses. The U.S. Surgeon General [...] Okay. I know this site is all about secondhand smoke. But I can’t help but note this item, brought to my attention by a fellow Smokefree DC board member: The folks at Metro — Washington, D.C.’s subway system – think that a careless smoker was responsible for the Red Line shutting down yesterday. According to their theory, [...] |
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