Smoke war lingers on

ALBANY - Smokers, already pushed outside in New York, may be getting more grief than usual for lighting up in public places thanks to a new ad campaign designed to discourage smoking around children.

The state's $5 million campaign, one more push for champions of the anti-smoking movement, came at the same time a report by the U.S. Surgeon General indicates infants and young children are especially vulnerable to secondhand smoke.

One print ad warns “when you smoke around your kids, they smoke too. By the age of 5 they'll have inhaled over 100 packs.”