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Air Filters: Smoke and Mirrors?

By Elizabeth Christensen

New York State – WRVO's Elizabeth Christensen speaks with former EPA scientist and second-hand smoke expert James Repace.

Repace says about a proposal to amend New York State's Indoor Clean Air Act to allow smoking in bars with state-of-the-art air filtration systems will harm public health.

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