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Published: June 27, 2008
Secondhand smoke remains a problem
Cigarette exposure kills 700 Oklahomans every year, officials say.
By Jim Killackey
While Oklahomans are now smoking 49.3 million fewer packs of cigarettes than four years ago, the secondhand smoke from those cigarettes causes numerous health hazards and kills about 700 Oklahomans a year, health authorities said Thursday.

"We need to make Oklahoma 100 percent smoke-free,” Wes Glinsmann , spokesman for the American Heart Association , said at a state Capitol news conference. Officials there urged...

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