Passive Smoking One Of The Leading Cause Of Cancer

Every time you light up a cigar or cigarette in the presence of someone else you are putting them at increased risk of cancer, Cohn’s disease and respiratory diseases such as asthma or bronchitis. You are also making it more likely that the people who are passively smoking because of your tobacco product will develop cardiovascular ailments as well as increasing their chances of getting nose, throat and ear infections. Passive smoking is particularly dangerous for children who may not be aware of the dangers they face when they breathe in second hand smoke. Perhaps the most disturbing fact about passive smoking is that it increases the chance of a young child dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Unfortunately, these warnings about passive smoking are not simply the hysterical paranoia of politically correct people who want to control the world and everything in it. The dangers of passive smoking are real and there is clinical research to prove them. Therefore, if you are a smoker it would be erroneous on your behalf to dismiss the hazards of passive smoking and continue to smoke in the presence of your children, relatives or anybody else

Scientists, doctors, and even environmentalists have done much research when it comes to passive smoking and its effects. This research has borne out the fact that secondhand smoke that is, the smoke released by the smoldering end of a cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker, causes the same problems as direct smoking. This includes lung cancer, heart diseases, heart attacks, strokes, bronchitis, asthma, and a host of other diseases.

Persons who live with smokers have been shown to have a 20-30% greater risk of lung cancer than non-smokers who live in a smoke-free environment.

Most people are very concerned with their own families more than anything is, and it is surprising to most when they find out how much damage has been done and continues to be done when one smokes. Adults or children with asthma can experience attacks brought on by passive smoking, and tobacco has an immediate effect on the blood vessels, causing them to constrict, making the heart work hard. In 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a review of the available evidence regarding the relationship between secondhand smoke and heart disease, and estimated that passive smoking was responsible for 35,000 to 40,000 deaths per year in the United States in the early 1980s. Parental smoking can affect children and babies, and is associated with low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), bronchitis and pneumonia, and middle ear infections.

Passive smokers inhale the fumes given out by frequent smokers while they are smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. Passive smoking, also known as secondhand smoking is most frequent in public places, and can be observed in some private residences. Bars and restaurants are the most common places where one can experience passive smoking. Many individuals are also exposed to immense passive smoke in their own apartments or at the homes of friends and family. Smoke lingers in air for longer, particularly in enclosed rooms when a person keeps smoking for long. Children particularly toddlers and infants are at a higher risk from these poisonous remains even when smoker dissipates, because it forms a layer on their skin and clothes.

Passive smokers usually have to confront with many detrimental diseases such as heart related diseases, cancer, ear infections and respiratory problems.Passive smoking has been also found to be responsible for lower birth weights and a major cause of several infant deaths. As per recent studies, around one million smokers are found suffering from asthma, which is primarily caused by passive smoking.

Passive smokers are susceptible to a number of frightening effects. As one would expect, bronchial tubes of a child are relatively smaller and immune system is less developed making them more vulnerable to a host of illnesses and disorders. As their airways are smaller, kids take shorter and faster breaths than adults and as a result they actually breathe in more harmful particles while breathing. Exposures to smoke of tobacco can even double the risk of children contracting disorders and diseases like pneumonia and bronchitis calling for the need of hospitalization for these illnesses.

The adverse effects of second hand smoke have been researched and complied for many years. The effects are life threatening, serious and debilitating. It is a proven fact that it is next to impossible to avert passive smoking completely, but it is definitely in your best interest to avoid it as much as possible. Pregnant women and children are at a higher risk and they should take every step possible to ensure that they are protected from the effects of second hand smoke.

Passive smoking endangers the health of those around you. If you inhale tobacco smoke from smokers, you can consider yourself a passive smoker. Passive smoke is also known as second hand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke.

Health organizations demand stronger measures to protect passive smokers. Public areas such as kindergartens, children's playgrounds, schools, sports facilities, shopping centers, restaurants as well as public means of transport, should be smoke free in the future. Non-smokers, especially children, have a right to their health.

You put your children's health at risk when you expose them to second hand smoke. Tobacco smoke is the most dangerous interior pollutant. Children cannot choose not to inhale nor resist this dangerous cigarette smoke from the smokers as they receive it involuntarily.

Passive smoking induces similar health damaging effects as active smoking. In fact, studies indicate that passive smoking is more harmful than active smoking. Children face higher health risks as compared to adults. They are more sensitive to smoke, as their bodies are still growing and developing.

A study by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio reveals that second hand smoke knocks points off your child's IQ. One nanogram of continine per milliliter of blood may decrease your child's IQ scores by an average of two points. It just takes one parent who smokes less than a pack a day to cause the effect.

Mankind is an intelligent being in many respects, but also very stupid in many other ways. We have a tendency to go through life with a self-destruct button fixed to our forehead. Even when armed with the knowledge that something is most likely going to kill us, such as smoking, or kill those around us, such as passive smoking, many still opt for the path of destruction regardless of the consequences.

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