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Is Passive Smoking Injurious to Health?



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Smoking kills, please stop smoking people. If you quit, after two or three months, you will experience more stop smoking benefits. You will be much healthier. The lung will function much better and its functioning will increment by 30 percent.

 

If not here are the results:

In adults

  • Heart disease
  • Lung cancer
  • Irritation of the eyes and nose

In children and infants

  • Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or cot death)
  • Lower birthweight (where the pregnant mother was exposed to SHS)
  • Bronchitis, pneumonia and other lung/airways infections
  • Wheeze illnesses in early childhood
  • Middle ear disease (otitis media or ‘glue ear', middle ear effusion)
  • Respiratory symptoms including cough, phlegm, wheeze and breathlessness
  • Higher rates and worsening of asthma
  • Lower level of lung function during childhood (i.e. they cannot breathe in as deeply or breathe out as hard as they would otherwise)

Exposure to secondhand smoke is also linked to a number of other diseases and conditions including other cancers, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), development of childhood asthma, adult asthma and other breathing problems, meningococcal disease in children, and preterm delivery of babies.

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