What is Passive Smoking?
Passive smoking refers to the smoke that non-smokers are breathing in from active smokers. Passive smoking means that the passive smokers, or non-smokers, are breathing in the smoke either from the burning end of the active smoker’s cigarette or the smoke expelled by the active smoker. Passive smoking is also called involuntary or secondhand smoking. Passive smoking can lead to very serious health problems such as respiratory diseases, heart disease and lung cancer. Cigarette smoke has more than 400 chemicals in it, and cigarette smoking creates air pollution in the form of passive smoking. Passive smoking is considered a preventable cause of death which has killed thousands of people exposed to cigarette smoke in homes, workplaces and/or public places. Children are often passive smokers and receive health injuries that they would not have had if their parents did not smoke. Even a small amount of secondhand smoke can affect babies, children and others. When active smokers smoke in the
Passive smoking is also known as secondhand or involuntary smoking. It is basically the breathing in and exposure to other people’s cigarette smoke, which is also known as secondhand smoke or Environmental tobacco smoke. Environmental tobacco smoke is one of the biggest sources of indoor air pollution. As well as making your home or your workplace smell bad, it also, more importantly can lead to lung cancer and heart disease in smokers and in non-smokers. Scientists have ranked indoor air pollution as one of the top five major environmental health risks that affect us today. This statistic is quite worrying as most people spend as much as 90% of their time indoors. Babies and children are especially at risk and their health, as a child and even as an adult in years to come, is jeopardised if they are exposed to passive smoking at home. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a product of two of the three types of tobacco smoke produced when a person smokes a cigarette. The first type of s
Passive (or involuntary) smoking is exposure to secondhand smoke, also called “environmental” tobacco smoke. Such smoke is a mixture of smoke exhaled by smokers and smoke released from the smouldering cigarettes, cigars, pipes, bidis, etc. Secondhand tobacco smoke consists of both gases and particulates, which change as they get diluted and distributed in the environment and with time. The quantity of secondhand smoke inhaled involuntarily varies and its composition depends on smoking patterns and cigarette type. Concentrations in air may be elevated substantially in enclosed spaces. Secondhand smoke contains nicotine, as well as various carcinogens and toxins. Nicotine concentrations in the air in workplaces where smoking is permitted and in homes of smokers range on average from 2 to 10 µg/m3. More…
What is passive smoking? Simply put, it is the breathing in of a combination of another persons exhaled smoke and the smoke from the burning tip of their cigarette. This second hand smoke can cause as much damage to the passive smoker as it does to the smoker him (or her) self. It will increase their risk of cancer, heart disease, strokes and respiratory disease. Smoke will linger even in a well ventilated room for more than two hours after the last cigarette has been completed, giving plently of time for it to be inhaled time and time again. As adults we have free will to move away from smokers or a smokey room if we so choose (even this is within reason). However this is much more difficult, and in some cases impossible, for a child. In the UK, five million children are still exposed regularly to secondhand smoke and, world wide nearly half of all children still live in smoke-filled homes. Children who live with smokers may find it very difficult to move away from that smoke even if
