Local Groups Push for Smoke-Free Community

Community Health Works and the American Cancer Society partnered for a “breathe easy” meeting today.  The group hopes to create more smoke-free areas in Macon.  They want to cut down on the inhalation of second hand smoke.

A surgeon general’s report says, since 2006 any exposure to second hand smoke is considered dangerous.

“Well what we want to do is first educate the public and then see what the community wants to do. To partner with American Cancer Society and others to look at the issue and educate the public and to look at what Macon wants to do with it,” explains Greg Dent, President of Community Health Works.

Other cities in Georgia taking part in the “breathe easy” coalition are Savannah and Athens.