'One in five females engage in passive smoking'
During a press conference held yesterday (12), Chairman of the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Dr. Samadhi Rajapaksa said that one in five females in Sri Lanka are engaged in passive smoking.
He noted that although women do not smoke directly, the passive inhalation of smoke while associating those who actively smoke affects these women adversely
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