Study finds college students exposed to high levels of secondhand smoke

By Richard Craver

"Going to college introduces more than just higher education and different lifestyles to students. ..."

"It also is exposing them to high levels of secondhand smoke, according to a study at 10 North Carolina universities conducted in the fall of 2006 by Wake Forest University School of Medicine. ..."

"According to researchers, 83 percent of the 4,223 students said they had been exposed at least once in the previous week to secondhand smoke, primarily in social settings such as restaurants, bars, Greek houses, off-campus housing and automobiles. ..."

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