Passive smoking is inhaling of smoke that is generated by cigarettes, cigars, or pipes that other individuals are smoking. It is also known as environmental tobacco smoke.
According to the American Cancer Society, 35,000–40,000 people who are not smokers die of heart disease because of exposure to passive smoke.
According several studies passive smoke contains more than 4,000 substances, and at least 40 of them are carcinogenic (cancer causing).
Passive smoking is known cause of lung cancer in humans.
That causes about 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmokers every year. The statistics data also estimates that there are between 7,500–15,000 hospitalizations of infants and children under the age of 18 months each year for respiratory tract infections that are caused by passive smoke.
Children with asthma who live with smokers must cope with a greater number of attacks that are more severe.
Recommendations for Smokers
For their own health and the health of others, all smokers should stop smoking. Until then, people who smoke should smoke outside their home or workplace so that others will not inhale passive smoke.
Parents should make sure that they tell babysitters and family members they disapprove of smoking and should not allow smoking around their children. If a family member or other person smokes inside the house despite requests for no smoking, windows should be opened and exhaust fans turned on.
The risks of passive smoking have a negative effect on the health of those around smokers, making tobacco smoking a social as well as an individual problem.
Look at smoking from all sides – there are no benefits.

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