Passive smoking: more harmful than it seems

Many people think that bad habits are a private matter for everyone. But they are deeply mistaken. People who live near smokers, inevitably find themselves in a risk zone and suffer from cigarette smoke no less than the lovers themselves smoke. Of course, you can become a passive smoker while in a cafe or a visit, but it's much worse when someone smokes in your home.

Let's see what dangerous passive smoking is.

Caution! Second hand smoke!

Tobacco smoke from one smoked cigarette, which is inhaled with active and passive smoking, consists of carbon monoxide, oxide

nitrogen, aldehydes, cyanides, acrolein, nicotine, etc. Cigarette smoke contains about 4000 chemical compounds, 40 of

of which cause cancer. Also in the tobacco smoke there are radioactive substances, lead, bismuth,

polonium. A person who smokes a single pack of cigarettes a day gets for a year radiation dose of 500 roentgens.

Passive smoker, being in the same room with an active smoker for an hour, inhales such a dose of gaseous compound

parts of smoke, which is equivalent to smoking half the cigarette. Non-smokers are forced to inhale a large number of

carcinogens, which are contained in tobacco smoke, and which, lingering in the lungs, accumulate to critical

values.

Does not save the problems and airing the smoke-filled premises - harmful substances contained in cigarette smoke, settle on the walls,

furniture, absorbed in clothing, hair and skin. So, getting rid of the consequences of a cigarette you smoke is not as easy as it seems

first glance.

Not for nothing that many countries have introduced an official ban on smoking in public places and even a fine for it. According to numerous

researches, workers of establishments, where they forbade visitors to smoke, observe in themselves improvement of health and well-being.

Some statistics:

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  medical research found that passive smoking is the cause of many cardiovascular diseases, there is
  
  direct dependence of the occurrence of lung cancer and diseases of the respiratory system;
  




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  there is evidence that the mortality rate from heart disease in families where there is one smoker is 20% higher than in non-smokers
  
  families;
  




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  in children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy, there is a large percentage of such diseases as allergies, bronchial
  
  asthma. Often such babies are born prematurely, develop more slowly than their peers, and also have many later
  
  mental problems. Such qualities as deceit, inclination to violations of generally accepted norms of behavior, oddly enough, can
  
  manifest in these children at a later age;
  




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  children who have been subjected to second-hand smoke due to the fact that their fathers have smoked, most often other children suffer from weight problems;
  




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  in schoolchildren who are passive smokers, progress in class is reduced by about 15-20%.
  

In other words, scientists and physicians all over the world are unanimous in the opinion that Passive smoking leads to serious illness and death.

We hope that this article will be an occasion to reflect for those who smoke. And if you are a smoker, be

polite to others and try not to smoke in front of people, because human health is much

more important an ordinary desire to smoke.

Think about your loved ones, your children, who are forced to inhale cigarette smoke and unwillingly become

passive smokers, dooming themselves to illness. Know that their health is in your hands. AND quit smoking!