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When you inhale secondhand smoke, it is the same as you are smoking cigarette yourself.
Secondhand smoke is dangerous to you regardless of your age or health, it is known as environmental tobacco smoke.
Secondhand smoke is a combination of 2 forms of smoke coming out from burning cigarette tobacco:
1. Sidestream smoke
The smoke that comes from the end of a lighted cigarette.
2. Mainstream smoke
The smoke that is exhaled by a smoker
You think that both forms are the same but they are not.
Sidestream smokes contain high level of cancer-causing agents (carcinogens) than mainstream smoke.
And it also contains smaller particles than mainstream smoke which make it easier to travel into your body cells.
Involuntary smoking or passive smoking is a term associated with non smokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke.
They breathe in nicotine and other toxic chemicals just like smokers do.
The more often you are exposed to secondhand smoke the higher the level of these harmful chemicals enters your body.
Secondhand smoke is dangerous Secondhand smoke is classified as known human carcinogen a cancer causing agent by the US National Toxicology Program, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) a branch of the World Health Organization.
Smoke from tobacco contains more than 7,000 chemical compounds.
250 or more of these chemicals are known to be harmful and at least 69 of them are known to cause cancer.
There are may ways secondhand smoke can caused you harm.
Below are some of the diseases you may suffer when you inhale secondhand smoke,
* Heart disease
* Lung cancer
* Asthma
* Respiratory and lung infection
Since 1964, US Surgeon General published publicly 30 separate reports on the health issues linked to tobacco and secondhand smoke.
Ongoing research in these reports continues to support the fact that SHS are linked to serious health problems that can be prevented.
The reports have highlighted that,
* Chemicals in tobacco smoke damage sperm and reduce fertility and harmful to fetal development.
* SHS immediately affects your heart, your blood vessels and your blood circulation, over the years it can cause heart disease, strokes and heart attacks.
* SHS causes lung cancer even though you are a non smoker. Brief exposure can damage cells that set the cancer process in motion.
Any exposure to SHS is harmful as there is no such thing as a safe level of exposure.
The only way to fully protect you as a non-smoker from exposure to SHS outdoors is to stay away from people who smoke, do not comes near to designated smoking areas, smoky pubs and etc.
People who are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke have increased risks of dying from strokes and emphysema as well as from heart disease and lung cancer, according to nearly two decades of study conducted by researchers from Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing.
Joanna Cohen, director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said, the results from China support the evidence that secondhand smoke may boost your risks of heart disease and certain cancers but also strokes and emphysema as well.
She added that this type of study is important for adding to evidence of a causal relationship.
Avoiding secondhand smokes completely is very difficult.
You breathe in secondhand smoke everywhere you go, in restaurants, around the doorways of buildings, at work and even your home.
Be aware of your surroundings.
Protect yourself.
Try not to breathe in secondhand smoke where ever and whenever possible.
Article Resource: Reuters
Posted by: Mo Salle
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