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Closed Ban Smoking in Public

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When people smoke, most of the smoke doesn't go into their lungs, it goes into the air around them anyone nearby can breathe it in. Secondhand smoke is dangerous.

The evidence around the harmful impacts of smoking and passive smoking is endless, but here are some examples.

https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/stopping-smoking/reasons-to-stop/second-hand-smoke
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/tobacco-and-cancer/secondhand-smoke.html

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/smoking-and-cancer/what-is-passive-smoking

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    This petition will stay open until 6 November 2019.