Passive Smoking

Passive smoking is considered to be the involuntary expose to another person's cigarette smoke. This smoke exposure has seemed to become very common now to non-smoking people. The form of smoke that forms from the tobacco is very dangers to non-smokers than it is to smokers. For this reason, smokers not only put themselves at serious risk for health problems but they also put the people around them at risk for serious health problems.

The effects of passive smoking can occur rapidly or it can occur slowly. The rapid effects of passive smoking are mostly eye irritation, nasal irritation, headache, and cough. People could start suffering from these rapid effects in as little as 15 minutes. These effects are not seen among some people because it is believed that their bodies have developed a tolerance for the smoke they have been receiving.

The slower affects of passive smoking are usually the more permanent and are more dangerous effects to take place in the human body. If pregnant women are exposed to smoke, it could be very harmful to the unborn baby. The harmful substance that is giving off in the smoke could go through the mother's bloodstream and reach the unborn baby. If this happens then it would increase the risk of the miscarriage, low birth weight and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Passive smoking could cause lung infection in infants which has been proven to be very deadly. Illnesses such as acute respiratory disease, chronic cough with phlegm and childhood deafness are mostly found in older children who have been exposed to a massive amount of involuntary smoke.

There have been a number studies that have question the fact that infant lung disease and acute respiratory disease were caused by passive smoking. But without a doubt Lung cancer is linked to passive smoking. People who live with a smoker can be as low as 1.6 times greater to obtain lung cancer. They can also be as much as 3.4 times greater to get lung cancer if the passive smoker lives with a person that smokes more than one pack a day.

In conclusion, there are many estimates that have been made over several years that have proven that lung cancer is linked to the passive smoke that non-smokers receive from cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke actually inhaled deeper in the lungs and stays in the body longer of non-smokers than it does smokers. Clearly, the more time spend closely with people that smoke, the more harmful substances you