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Second Hand Smoking
Prevention of second hand
smoking is an important factor in the drive against anti smoking because it is
plays a major role in spreading smoking related diseases to non smokers. Here are some facts about
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- The 1999 National
Cancer Institute Monograph 10 confirmed that Second Hand Smoke is fatal and has numerous non-fatal health effects.
Second Hand Smoke chemicals include irritants and systemic toxicants, mutagens, and carcinogens,
and reproductive and developmental toxicants. More than 50 compounds in
tobacco smoke are known carcinogens. Second Hand Smoke exposure causes lung and nasal sinus
cancer, heart disease, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Serious impacts of
Second Hand Smoke on children include asthma induction and exacerbation, bronchitis and
pneumonia, middle ear infection, chronic respiratory symptoms, and low birth
weight smoking. For more information on anti smoking and second hand smoke, go
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- Second Hand Smoke is
the third leading cause of preventable death in this country, killing 53,000
nonsmokers in the America each year. For every eight smokers the tobacco
industry kills, it takes one nonsmoker with them. For more information on anti
smoking and second hand smoking, go to:
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- The 1986 Report of
the Surgeon General; and the 1992 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report,
Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other
Disorders, established that SHS exposure causes lung cancer. For more
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- Even a half hour of
secondhand smoking exposure causes heart damage similar to that of habitual
smokers. Nonsmokers' heart arteries showed a reduced ability to dilate,
diminishing the ability of the heart to get life-giving blood. In addition,
the same half hour of secondhand smoking exposure activates blood platelets,
which can initiate the process of atherosclerosis (blockage of the heart's
arteries) that leads to heart attacks. These effects explain other research
showing that nonsmokers regularly exposed to SHS suffer death or morbidity
rates 30% higher than those of unexposed nonsmokers. For more information on
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- Data from a 1991 study
showed that nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population had measurable levels of
serum cotinine (metabolized nicotine) in their blood. In 2002, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention's National Report on Human Exposure to
Environmental Chemicals found more than a 75 percent decrease in median
cotinine levels for nonsmokers in the U.S. since 1991- an indication that
smoking-free environments significantly reduce exposure to second hand smoking.
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We at www.gotopatches.com can help you in the anti smoking drive
to reduce second hand
smoking. For further information visit
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