Secondhand smoke proven to cause breathing troubles

URBANA – Longtime restaurant owner John Schmitt looks back and figures he probably just didn't realize what was causing all those eye and sinus irritations that were plaguing him for years.

It wasn't until he got really sick with acute bronchitis in 2004 that he learned the culprit was secondhand smoke.

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