California Health and Safety Code

§ 118920

HSC § 118920 Effective Jan 1, 1996Div. 104 · Part 15 · Ch. 4 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the United States Surgeon General’s 1986 Report on the Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking conclude all of the following:

(1)Involuntary smoking is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers.

(2)The children of parents who smoke compared with the children of nonsmoking parents have an increased frequency of respiratory infections, increased respiratory symptoms, and slightly smaller rates of increase in lung function as the lungs mature.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.