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STa1toM WABC/TV GOU'D MORNING AMERICA ary NEW' YORK 03/16i93 8:25 A.M!. wpirwQ SxoRING IN FEDzRAL, BUILDINQB Im' wASHII=ODt BRq' DqAST SXICERPT BOB JAMIESON - NEWS ANCHOR: One of these cLays, Washington's legendiaxyemokeybackroomscould be justbacxrooms., That' e becau9e Cnngreeia is considering a new ban on smoking in federal buildings. And not just some: of the,btildingw, all of them,. ABC''e Bill Greenwood has more. BILL GREF'hTWOOD - REP'OR"hER: More than one million federalf employees work in buildings where the air is re-cireul'ated, not filtered, mnd often polluted. That expoces non-s:nokere to second- hand tobacco fu:aes, which federal health oftic3ala say can lea37E5"- caricer. And Capitol Hill isi no exception. This is where smoke- filled rooms were invented. GOVERNOR B ILI. DIIRB I23 : This is an anachronism. That in a room like this, with ao~ many non-smokers, we have an invitation for members of Congress, to smoke. GREF174dOOD1: Surgeon General Antonia Novello supports a ban:_ on s.moking, in public buildings, and told lawmakers smoking will bew a., factor in 4'34, 000 deathn,, this, year alone. DR. ANTONIA NO'VEyLO - U. S. SURGEON GEhiERAL : 4134,000 people every year is equivalent of three ftally' loaded jumbo jets crashing' every day and killing everyone. GREENWO0D : To reduce the danger of aecond-hanrLsmoke, workers at the Department of' Health and Human Services are already_ force&to puff outside. UhTIDEi,TTIFIED HEAhTH i~ HDMAh1 SERVICES WOR)MR': I think it's good myself. I'm trying to quit' all the time, and this is one less place that I can smoke. GREENWOOD: ©fficials admit a~ government-wide ban on indoor srnoking, would be inconvenient, but only for one worker in four. Three outoffour Americana ddnot smoke. Bill Greenwood, ABC News, Washington.