subject: Passive Smoking Is Serious, Debilitating And Life-threatening [print this page] Passive smoking is also labeled as second-hand smoking. It is the involuntary action of inhaling the smoke by person other than active smoker. Passive smoking means that passive-smokers or non-smokers are inhaling smoke either form the end of the burning cigarette of active smoker or the smoke exhaled by active smoker. Concerns about the second-hand smoke have played a central role in debates over harms and regulation of tobacco products.
Exposure to second hand smoke causes diseases, disability or death. The health risk due to passive smoking is a matter of scientific consensus. The second-hand smoke has been a major motivation of smoke free laws at public places like at workplace, restaurants, markets as well as night clubs and bars. Public concerns as well as governments concern over the side effects both smoking and passive smoking has been viewed as threat to the business of tobacco by tobacco industries. Despite the tobacco industrys awareness on the health risks related to smoking or second hand smoking since the early 80s, tobacco industry coordinates the scientific controversy with the aim of forestalling regulation of the product.
Cigarette has more than 400 chemicals in it. Cigarette smoking creates air pollution in the form of passive smoke. Passive smoking leads to serious health issues such as lung cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease including diabetes, obesity as well as blurred distance vision in children. Children are the major victims of passive smoke and develop severe health related problems that they would not have had if their parents did not smoke. Even the small amount of cigarette smoke can harm your toddlers and adults both. When an active smoker smokes at home, but tries to smoke near an open window, some smoke still remains inside the home that can leave an adverse effect on children and other family members. Kids, who end up being passive smokers, easily develop cancer or other respiratory problems including asthma later in life. Smoking or even passive smoking is the major cause of number of deaths. Thousands of people exposed to second- hand smoke either develop health problems or die due to it.
Passive smoking is unhealthy for everyone even when active smokers choose to smoke and passive smokers do not. It is even unhealthy for animals. People suffering from asthma must avoid their exposure to smoke. Headache, sore throat, eye irritation and dizziness are the symptoms of passive smoking. Coughing, nausea can also develop due to second-hand smoke.
Mainstream smoking is undoubtedly harmful, but sidestream has proved to be even more harmful. Mainstream smoke is the smoke that enters the smokers body and is not exhaled. The smoke that enters the smoker's body and is then exhaled differs chemically since the smoke interacts with the tissues in the smoker's body before being exhaled. Mainstream passive smoking occurs when the non-smokers breaths in smoke exhaled by active-smoker.
The term sidestream smoke refers when the non-smoker inhales smoke from the end of the burning end of the smokers cigarette. Sidestream type of smoke has a higher concentration of chemicals as compare to that of mainstream smoke. Cigarette smoke contains chemicals like carbon monoxide, benzene and ammonia. Many chemicals in cigarette are irritants or carciogens.
Smoking gives you can nothing good. It not only affects you but people around you. The health risk of passive smoking or second-hand smoking is undeniable. They are serious, debilitating, and life-threatening. Although it is impossible to avoid all the traces of passive smoking but it can be avoided as often as possible.
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