Air pollution from secondhand smoke five times higher outside smoking rooms and other designated smoking areas than in smoke-free airports

Average air pollution levels from secondhand smoke directly outside designated smoking areas in airports are five times higher than levels in smoke-free airports, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study conducted in five large hub U.S. airports also showed that air pollution levels inside designated smoking areas were 23 times higher than levels in smoke-free airports. In the study, designated smoking areas in airports included restaurants, bars, and ventilated smoking rooms.

Happy Thanksgiving
Most Camden County offices will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 22 in observance of Thanksgiving. Please plan any business you may have with the county accordingly. Although most offices are closed, you can still access county services by going to www.camdencounty.com to get information and interact with the Freeholder Board.

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 10:01 AM PST

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As road conditions are sometimes \”iffy\” for deer seasons, hunters can check traffic and road conditions on more than 2,900 miles of roadways by simply calling \”511\” or logging onto the state Department of Transportation’s website (www.511pa.com) before heading out to camp this year.

Firefighters in Chester County, Pa. are facing Thanksgiving with heavy hearts as they mourn the loss of a brother.

Good Will Fire Company Capt. Chris Good, 36, was found in cardiac arrest at his home on Wednesday, according to the Daily Local.com.

Good had helped at a working fire on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he went to his job as a firefighter Arcelor Mittal Steel Fire Company.

After attending a pre-plan exercise, he returned home. His wife later found him unresponsive.

He is surivived by his wife and three children.

via www.firehouse.com

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BALTIMORE, MD., November 19 (CNA/EWTN News) .- The current Year of Faith is an opportunity to counter the cultural relativism that plagues modern society and that has led many in the Church to deny Catholic teaching on important topics, said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia.

\”The appropriate response to relativism is faith, where you no longer are the center of the universe, you are no longer the one who decides what’s true, but you commit yourself in faith to God’s truth,\” he told CNA on Nov. 12.