Mom decides secondhand smoke isn’t worth the risk
In recognition of National Air Quality Awareness week, Garfield, Eagle, Mesa, and Pitkin Counties, along with the City of Aspen and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have become partners to raise awareness about indoor and outdoor air quality issues, encouraging our communities to ‘share the air.’ Shanna Huser makes her husband take off his coat, wash his hands, and sometimes even brush his teeth, all just to hold their new six-week-old son. For 14 years, Shanna smoked nearly two packs of cigarettes a day. But once she became pregnant, she made the difficult decision to quit. Her husband is