Environmental Protection Agency estimates that SHS (secondhand smoke) causes more than 300,000 cases of asthma, bronchitis, middle ear infections, and pneumonia in children each year in the U.S. In California, specifically, one in four cancer deaths are caused by cigarette smoking and there are 41,000 estimated deaths each year by non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke
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This was also the moment of Ernest Matthew Micklers bestseller White Trash Cooking (1986), but as Hartigan notes, white trash retains deep stigma and contempt and has not found redemption even in country music, a domain of popular culture
Despite the decline, however, experts say numbers are still too high
subsequent influences were Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry