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Show Won Smokers Have Rights Smokers have a right to pursue their habit. Non-smokers Non-smokers have a right to clean air. Sometimes these rights clash. CONFINED places such as airplanes, meeting rooms, elevators and restaurants present special problems. Studies show that in smoke- , filled rooms the level of carbon car-bon monoxide may be in ex- . cess of the legal limits for maximum air pollution. The American Medical Association's As-sociation's pamphlet: Smoking: Facts You Should Know, points out that a person per-son doesn't have to be a smoker himself to suffer ill effects from cigarettes. A nonsmoker in the company com-pany of a smoker breathes in smoke from ti.e burning end of the cigarette as well as the exhaled smoke. SOME individuals actually are allergic to tobacco smoke and may suffer smoke-caused asthma attacks. If smoking is a personal right, it carries with it the responsibility of respecting the rights of the nonsmoker too. NONSMOKERS who suffer from allergies of diverse causes and other nonsmokers find that tobacco smoke causes eye irritation, nasal symptoms, headache and coughing. Inhaling second-hand smoke increases the heart rale, blood pressure and level of carbon monoxide in the blood. This is particularly dangeruus for those with heart ana respiratory conditions. condi-tions. AN ADDED note: Smoking is unsafe in more ways than one. People are killed or injured in-jured every day as a result of fires caused by careless smokers. The safety hazards of smoking are enormous, affecting af-fecting many innocent non-smokers non-smokers as well as smokers. , 1 , |