Our goals are to prevent and reduce tobacco use among youth, assist current tobacco users who want to quit, and promote a tobacco-free Texas. I work in an office where people smoke at their desk. It's irritating my eyes and asthma. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg. 76, Sec. 9, eff.
Tobacco is the number one leading cause of preventable deaths.
It kills more than alcohol, AIDS, illicit drugs, auto accidents, suicides, homicides, and fires combined . Yes, Tobacco can be located in a room 4 hours after the smell of tobacco has gone. At high exposure levels, nicotine is a potent and potentially lethal poison. Secondhand smoke is the only source of nicotine in the air. Nonsmokers exposed to cigarette smoke have in their body fluids significant amounts of nicotine, carbon monoxide, and other evidence of secondhand smoke.