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ensure accuracy. Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the
Nation Congress banned smoking on all airline flights of 2 hours
or less in 1987, and 3 years later effectively extended that
prohibition to all domestic flights. Smoking was also banned in
federal buildings and in child care facilities that received
federal funds. The 1992 release of the Environmental Protection
Agency’s landmark report, Respiratory Health Effects of Passive
Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders, added to the momentum
for smoke-free spaces (EPA 1992). The report concluded that
secondhand smoke is a Class A carcinogen, meaning that it is a
definite cause of human cancer. According to the Environmental
Protection Agency report, secondhand smoke causes some 3,000
deaths from lung cancer a year among nonsmokers. Secondhand
smoke gave new momentum to