By Dana Stevens
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March 24, 2021 (San Diego’s East County) -- After a long difficult year that forced us all to alter our daily lives just to stay well, our priority for 2021 should be to continue protecting our health. As we look to improve our diets, start exercise routines, wear our masks, and get vaccinated, let’s make sure we also give equal attention to the air we breathe.
Tobacco and marijuana smoke and the aerosol expelled from electronic smoking devices damage the lungs and other organs of users as well as everyone around them.
In 2006, the U.S. Surgeon General reported that there is “no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.” That same year, the California Air Resources Board designated secondhand smoke as a “toxic air contaminant.”
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