"Secondhand smoke doubles our risk of breast cancer. The risk you run to go smokefree? Zero." Allison Long, Jolanda Mernacej, Clarice Honigsberg NYC The California Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that secondhand smoke causes breast cancer in young women. Young women regularly exposed to secondhand smoke are about twice as likely to develop breast cancer as women who are not exposed. Women exposed between the onset of puberty and first childbearing may be at greatest risk. Waitresses have the highest on-the-job exposures to secondhand smoke of any group in America. Secondhand smoke accounts for about 30% of breast cancers among younger hospitality staff. There are many other compelling reasons to go smokefree, of course. Links to heart attacks, lung cancer, and asthma are long established. What's new is the revelation that early exposure to secondhand smoke puts some of your best and brightest young workers at risk. It costs you nothing to go smokefree. And it's your chance to actually prevent breast cancer. The chance of a lifetime, in more ways than one. Get the facts at TobaccoScam.ucsf.edu tobaccoscam Big Tobacco is lying. Again. TobaccoScam is a project of Stanton Glantz, PhD, of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. San Francisco, CA 94143-1390.