Number of cancer deaths from secondhand smoke is higher than total cancer deaths from the following pollutants combined:

• All outdoor air pollutants (radionuclides, asbestos, arsenic, benzene, coke oven emissions, and vinyl chloride)

• Radiation

• Pesticides on food

• Active hazardous waste sites

• Inactive hazardous waste sites

• Chemicals in drinking water

• All workplace chemicals

• All consumer products (including asbestos)

• Pesticide application

• Contaminated sludge

• Mining wastes

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