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The American Lung Association Smokefree Air 2010 Challenge needs your help to make your community and every community smokefree! The American Lung Association has issued a challenge to all communities and states:  Be smokefree no later than 2010. Secondhand smoke is a serious health hazard that kills almost 50,000 non-smoking Americans each year. 

Twenty-one states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have answered the American Lung Association's Smokefree Air 2010 Challenge by passing comprehensive smokefree air laws that protect almost all workers from exposure to secondhand smoke.  This is tremendous progress. Unfortunately, there are still communities and states that do not have smokefree air laws, leaving millions of Americans exposed to potentially lethal secondhand smoke in restaurants, workplaces, and other public places.

With your help and our aggressive campaign, we can achieve our goal of a Smokefree U.S. by 2010!  But, we can only do it if you help keep the pressure on their elected officials. Not only do smokefree laws reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, but they also increase the number of people who quit smoking and also discourage kids from starting to smoke.

In 2006, the U.S. Surgeon General released a report stating that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. The report also concludes that eliminating smoking in all indoor spaces is the only way to fully protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke. We believe - as we know you do as well – that everyone should be able to work in a smokefree environment.  People should not have to risk their health through exposure to tobacco smoke in order to make a living. 

You can help make a difference in the lives of Americans across the country.  Together, we can make every community in the U.S. smokefree. To date 13,238 have signed the petition. Please help us reach our goal of 10,000 signatures by signing the petition today!