Smoking kills 420,000 Americans each year, more than alcohol, illegal drugs, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fires and AIDS combined.
Cigarettes are the only legal product which, when used as intended, kills.
The smoker, and anyone else nearby, inhales these chemicals. Nonsmoking sections do not eliminate nonsmokers' exposure to secondhand smoke, the smoke knows no boundaries. Secondhand smoke joins a list which includes substances such as radon and asbestos. Children are particularly sensitive to the harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke. Children who are exposed to ETS have higher rates of illness than children who are not exposed.