| A lot many people would have been in this situation | | | | everyday basis, victims inhale these "leftover gas" |
| more than once in their lives. You might be enjoying a | | | | involuntarily and most of the times unknowingly. It is |
| nice meal or watching a ball game when you are | | | | widely known that cancer will be contracted through |
| suddenly overcome with the unpleasant odour of | | | | tobacco cigarette smoke thanks to the cancer causing |
| tobacco smoke. This may not affect some people, but | | | | agent Carcinogen A. It is also a true fact that diseases |
| some of them may simply be annoyed, while some | | | | such as asthma, respiratory infections, and other mild |
| others who have a keen aversion to the effects may | | | | illnesses such as cold can arise from this dangerous |
| become irritated and enraged. Whichever category | | | | activity of inhaling second hand smoke. |
| you fall into, it has one thing in common, and that is | | | | Any level of exposure to second hand smoke, despite |
| health risks. Whether sensitive to tobacco cigarette | | | | the duration, can be harmful to the human body. There |
| smoke or not, you cannot escape the harmful and | | | | is no safe level of exposure. The American Lung |
| potentially fatal side effects of second hand tobacco | | | | Association states that short or infrequent exposures |
| cigarette smoke. | | | | to second hand smoke can cause blood platelets to |
| The harmful effects of second hand smoke are many | | | | become stickier than usual. It will also damage the lining |
| and varied. The American Lung Association states | | | | of one's blood vessels, decrease the speed of |
| that second hand smoke, also called as environmental | | | | coronary flow reserves, and reduce the human heart |
| tobacco smoke, is a poisonous mixture of the smoke | | | | rate variability, potentially increasing the chances of a |
| emitted by a burning cigarette, pipe or cigar, and the | | | | possible heart attack or stroke. Researches are being |
| smoke coming from the lungs of smokers. Even as | | | | conducted to ascertain a possible link between second |
| smokers take short breaks in between smoking | | | | hand smoke and a hardening of the arteries leading to |
| sessions, or once the cigarette is crushed, they | | | | stroke. Second hand smoke is very much harmful to |
| continue to breathe out these toxic fumes containing | | | | young children. It is responsible for lower respiratory |
| chemicals. Though smoking is carried out in a | | | | tract infections in infants and children that are under 18 |
| designated area, these smokers will have the potential | | | | months of age. This results in thousands of |
| to intoxicate anyone coming into contact with them | | | | hospitalization cases each year, and is the primary |
| after their smoking sessions get over. | | | | cause of sudden infant death syndrome deaths which |
| Many unfortunate and dangerous results arise from | | | | constitutes a good percentage in the United States |
| this habit of smoking tobacco cigarettes. The toxins do | | | | annually. The National Cancer Institute is of the view |
| exist during the actual smoking time of tobacco | | | | that exposure to second hand smoke slows down the |
| products and remains in the atmospheric air even long | | | | growth of children's lungs as well. |
| hours after the last puff of a cigarette. On an | | | | |