Some of you may say that you don't smoke and consider you selves very healthy. Well if you hang out with a lot of people who smoke, you may not be much better off then your friends that smoke. Second hand smoke is also called Environmental Tobacco Smoke or ETS. Second hand smoke can damage your body, make it difficult to breath and even kill you.
             ETS is a combination of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs. ETS is known to cause lung cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, stroke and respiratory disease. Second hand smoke is also known to cause harmful damage to you coronary circulation. An even more shocking truth, is a test that was given, which has shown that as little as 30 minutes of exposure to second-hand smoke can significantly reduce the coronary flow velocity reserve in healthy non-smokers. Equal to the same seen in everyday smokers. So that means while you are in a bowling alley, in the time you bowl and leave you can develop problems even if you are not smoking. The smoke, which comes off the tip of a lit cigarette, is more harmful then that of the smoke which passes through the filter. So you inhale the most powerful chemicals. These chemicals are so powerful they can be found in the blood of a non-smoker for up to 40 hours after exposure to second hand smoke. CITATION EXPOSER
             ETS is the third preventable death in Canada. ETS kills about 5,000-7,000 Canadians each year. In the United States the number of deaths reaches over 3,000 from lung cancer alone. Sudden death syndrome alone also contributes 2,700 deaths. But why would this number be alarming due to the fact that 27% of children ages 0-17 years are exposed to ETS in their homes. Heart disease contributes an astonishing 62,000 deaths per year. (CITATION) CAN I LIVE For every 8 smokers tobacco kills, 1 non-smoker is killed by i
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