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... up with friends, or even just work. According to Smoking 101: an Overview for Teens, “In crowded restaurants, smoking can produce six times the pollution of a busy highway”. As if killing up to 3,000 people each year is not reason, secondhand smoke also causes irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat. It can also irritate the lungs, leading to coughing, excessive phlegm and chest discomfort. “Secondhand Smoke has been linked with the onset of chest pain that may affect the heart, according to some studies”, says Smoking 101: an Overview for Teens. As difficult as it is for an adult to try and avoid breathing the abundance of secondhand smoke, imagine being the child of a smoking parent. Children who breathe Secondhand Smoke are more likely to suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis, and other lung diseases, have more inner infections, develop asthma, and have more asthma attacks. There are an estimated 150,000 to 300,000 case every year of infections, such as bronchitis and pneumonia in infants and children under 18 months of age who breathe Secondhand Smoke. These result in 7,500 to 15,000 hospitalizations. There is nothing pleasant about inhaling second hand smoke, especially when ones own life is at risk. Some citizens who are against the smoking ban are worried it may cause people not to go to those places. Many people do believe that the general public will boycott places that put the smoking ban into effect. In fact, the opposite is true. People are actually more likely to avoid a restaurant if smoking is aloud there. According to projectactionhfm.org “61% of people strongly support the ban on smoking in workplaces, including bars, restaurants and offices. Another 14% said they "somewhat" support the ban, and 70% of people said the rights of customers to be in a smoke-free restaurant or bar is more important than the right to smoke”. Other restaurant and business owners are very concerned about what the smoking ban will do to their business. In New York, according to the Tax Department spokesman, Tom Bergin, “After a 3.4 percent drop in sales during the first quarter of the ban, business has remained about the same statewide”. He continued to state, “Sales fell 0.3 percent and 0.1 percent in the two quarters following the ban, but in the period from March 2004 to May2004 sales rose 0.2 percent to $169.6 million”. A survey done by Smoking 101: an Overview for Teens, which measured the support of smoke-free restaurants, showed that “71 percent of people questioned preferred nonsmoking restaurants”. Some citizens are also concerned about the ban, saying “It's a restaurant owners right to allow smoking in their restaurants”. An article from Omaha, Nebras...