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Passive smoking
Passive smoking is inhaling second-hand smoke, second hand smoke is also called environmental tobacco smoke. It is as dangerous as if you are smoking yourself, some studies and scientist claim it to be even more dangerous then voluntary smoking.
The second hand smoke or ETS has nicotine and carcinogens, which make it very dangerous. It has more than 4000 chemicals. It contain carbon monoxide, ammonia etc. not need to explain how dangerous these chemicals can be.
The smoke from the tip of the cigerette is even more dangerous than the smoke exhaled by a smoker; this smoke contains more amounts of chemicals and has very bad effects on human health. Carcinogens have been found in blood of non smokers, who used to sit around people who smoke a lot.
Short term symptoms include eye irritation, nausea, head ache, etc. the people who suffer from asthma may have even worse effects of the smoke, their lungs may stop working properly because of the SHS. You are more likely to have lung cancer if some person in your family smokes, there are many heart disease the risk of which increases for passive smokers.
Some of the most serious damage inflicted by passive smoking is done to children during their formative years. As you would expect, a child's bronchial tubes are smaller and their immune systems are less developed making them more susceptible to the harmful effects of passive smoking. Because their airways are smaller, children breathe faster than adults and, consequently, they actually breathe in comparatively more of the harmful chemicals in the smoke, based on their body weight, than adults do. Few parents who smoke would continue to do so if they knew the potential harm that they were doing to their children. Young children, by necessity, spend a lot of time at home and maternal smoking is one of the major sources of passive smoking because of the child's close proximity to their parents during early childhood.
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