Word: second-hand
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...commission's recommendations come after a study released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this past January 1993 which designated second-hand smoke as a Group A carcinogen, placing it among the most serious of all cancer-causing agents, and the cause of 3,000 lung cancer deaths in non-smokers per year...
Booth emphasized that students and administrators should work together to promote a greater awareness of the health risks of smoking and second-hand smoke...
Jewett also said he has heard "second-hand reports that some students felt harrassed and intimidated." He encouraged students to bring their concerns...
...public silence surrounding this issue typifies a broader silence which has contributed to the perpetuation of a far more violent and pernicious form of oppression. The second thing I learned last week is this: One of my acquaintances, whom I used to describe as a casual friend, is a date rapist. Probably many of us could tell similar stories; I have no proof of it, since I learned of the incident second-hand and I do not know the victim's name...
...However, these moments do little to sustain the overall ho-hum drama which is meant to propel the novel. It reads as if a Dynasty script meets "Miami Vice" in Colombia followed by the same Dynasty script meeting. "The Living End" in Germany. And this is all retold, often second-hand, by a not so reliable narrator in New York sometime later. Oh, and a serial killer lurks about the pages. This allusion seems so cliche it's forgettable, but so irritatingly contrived that it's not easily forgotten...