How Does This Affect the Passive Smoker?
Some of the immediate effects include eye irritation, headache, cough, sore throat, dizziness and nausea. Adults with asthma can experience a significant decline in lung function when exposed, while new cases of asthma may be induced in children whose parents smoke. A major review by the Government-appointed Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health concluded that passive smoking is a cause of lung cancer and heart disease in adult non smokers, and a cause of respiratory disease, bronchitis, pneumonia, cot death, middle ear disease and asthmatic attacks in children. A US study also found deficits in reading and reasoning skills among children even at low levels of smoke exposure, also that babies exposed to their smoking mother’s tobacco smoke before they are born grow up with reduced lung function Note: In the United Kingdom the price of a pack of 20 cigarettes costs nearly £5.00 and is approximately 80% tax.
