There are many problems in people who smoke, such as environmental tobacco smoke or most commonly known as secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is a combination of the smoke coming from the lit end of a cigarette plus the smoke exhaled by a person smoking. As everyone knows secondhand smoke is bad for the health of the smoker and also the non-smoker around the smoker. Secondhand smoke can cause lung cancer and heart disease in non-smoking adults. Children are also apt to be diagnosed with asthma, respiratory infections, cough, wheeze, otitis media (middle ear infection), and/or sudden infant death syndrome (www.pmusa.com).
             Scientists have documented the presence of some of the toxic and carcinogenic components of environmental tobacco smoke in the hair and body fluids of nonsmokers exposed to tobacco smoke, and an extensive database on the health effects of ETS now exists. Numerous epidemiological studies have examined the associations between ETS exposure and acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) health effects. But debates still continue about the validity of the scientific methods used to establish causality for chronic diseases-lung cancer and cardiovascular disease, for example-reported in nonsmokers living or working with smokers. Study limitations and sometimes-equivocal results have led many observers to question whether the health risks that the studies have shown to be associated with environmental tobacco smoke are, indeed, real (www.acsh.org).
             Secondhand smoke is more harmful than actually smoking the cigarette because you have to breathe in the smoke along with what the smoker breathes out that is too harmful to be in their body. So it seems ironic that smoking is safer than breathing it. Now that you know about all the facts about secondhand smoke I hope that you will not allow your friends that smoke to smoke around you, your children, or family.
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