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July 2009, Vol 99, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1158-1159
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.160127

LETTERS

SMOKING INSIDE VEHICLES SHOULD BE BANNED GLOBALLY

Ediriweera Desapriya, PhD, Kate Turcotte, MPH, Sayed Subzwari, MD, MPH and Ian Pike, PhD

Ediriweera Desapriya, Kate Turcotte, Sayed Subzwari, and Ian Pike are with the British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit, Vancouver, Canada, the Centre for Community Child Health Research, Vancouver, and the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ediriweera Desapriya, L408-4480 Oak St, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3V4 (e-mail: edesap@cw.bc.ca).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Figure 1
Malharrao Ghat. Copyright 2006 by Fredric Roberts. Source. Fredric Roberts, Humanitas—Volumes One and Two. Printed with permission.

We read with interest the article by Jarvie and Malone1 and certainly agree that smoking inside cars should be banned completely.

Tobacco smoking has been identified as the second leading risk factor for death from any cause worldwide.2 Recent reports from the US surgeon general show that more than 126 million people are exposed to secondhand smoke every day in the United States, with nearly 22 million of these persons being children. Secondhand smoke causes 50 000 deaths per year in the . . . [Full Text]






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