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Passive Smoking vs Forced Pollution Exposure Public health campaigns have highlighted the dangers of passive smoking

In A Counterblaste to Tobacco (1604), James VI of Scotland and I of England described smoking as "A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse", and urged his subjects not to use tobacco

She agreed that "no amount of smoking is safe." She said that quit-smoking efforts can work, but "true success is to avoid [initiating] tobacco exposure altogether." SOURCES: Patricia Folan, DNP, director, Center for Tobacco Control, Northwell Health, Great Neck, N.Y