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Council members seem aware that second-hand smoke alone might not warrant large bans. In 2007, Stanford University released one of the first studies that measured the impact of outdoor second-hand smoke. The study found that someone within a few feet of a smoker outdoors could be exposed to air pollution levels similar to an indoor environment. But the study also found that moving six feet away from a smoker drastically reduced a person's pollution intake, and that, unlike indoor smoke, outdoor smoke disappeared rapidly after a cheap cigarettes was extinguished.
Schiele believes the argument for outdoor bans goes beyond second-hand smoke.
"My goal is to have as many places smoke-free as possible," he said. "We want to change the norm. We want to change what is expected when people walk outside.... For people trying to quit smoking, being around smoking is difficult. Public health should give people the advantage to quit."

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