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Smoke Alarm
You can't seem to escape it no matter where you go. Pop into a popular nightclub downtown or wander around Cable Beach, and you could find yourself going home smelling like a walking ashtray. Even family outings to the Fish Fry or Junkanoo in June, will leave you wading through a cloud of smoke.In fact, being a non-smoker in The Bahamas can seriously damage your health. So what can be done to avoid that smoker's cough, even though you have never picked up a cigarette in your life?
Well, the United States Surgeon-General Richard Car- mona said last week that the only way to control second-hand smoking is to ban it from all public places.
"Scientific evidence is now indisputable [that] second-hand smoke is not a mere annoyance, [but] it is a serious health hazard that can lead to disease and premature death in children and non-smoking adults," said Carmona.
WIMBLEDON: Around The Grounds Day 7: Doubles
Defending men's doubles champions Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie exited the competition at the third round stage in a four-setter against Swedens Simon Aspelin and partner Australian Todd Perry that was as close as the two teams' seedings.In the end, eighth seeds Aspelin and Perry beat the ninth seeds 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4).
Aspelin and Perry will meet the third seeds, Mark Knowles of the Bahamas and Candian Daniel Nestor, in the quarter-finals. They beat unseeded British pair James Auckland and Jamie Delgado 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, 7-5.
Top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan of the USA beat countryman Bobby Reynolds and Australian partner Ashley Fisher 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. After narrowly losing the first set, the Bryan brothers came back in convincing form to set up a quarter-final meeting with Czech pair Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner, who earlier overcame the fifth-seeded Israeli pair Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5).