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Letter: Don't allow smoking for drive-throughs  

A new direction that this ban could take is not only banning smoking in bars and restaurants but in other public locations. It is my belief that we should try to keep more people protected from this secondhand toxin, which contains thousands of chemical compounds. Sixty have been known to cause cancer.

I think we should protect the workers of fast-food industries ... by banning smoking as customers use drive-through services.

About 41 percent of Americans claim to eat fast food at least once a week, and 21 percent of those are smokers. ... Sometimes they make the choice to smoke as they pass through the drive-through.

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