Can a person be allergic to cigarette smoke?
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Cigarette smoke contains a number of toxic chemicals and irritants. People with allergies may be more sensitive to cigarette smoke than others and research studies indicate that smoking may aggravate allergies.\n\n \nSmoking does not just harm smokers but also those around them. Research has shown that children and spouses of smokers tend to have more respiratory infections and asthma than those of non-smokers. In addition, exposure to secondhand smoke can increase the risk of allergic complications such as sinusitis and bronchitis. \n\nCommon symptoms of smoke irritation are burning or watery eyes, nasal congestion, coughing, hoarseness and shortness of breath presenting as a wheeze.
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Sure - you can be allergic to anything in the world!!!
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No. Consumers are the ones that buy the product. Tobacco companies do not force anyone to smoke. If you want to say something about second hand smoke, I live in a state where smoking in public is banned. Anyways, it's the person smoking who is at fault.
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No...smoking will not help with asthma. It will cause irritation and possibly...most likely cause an asthma attack.
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No, but smoking cigarettes does
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No. It is possible to be allergic to substances or organisms in water, but pure water with a low salinity level cannot cause allergies in whatsoever application.\n\nIt is perfectly possible to have an allergic reaction to treated water from the tab: I have a chlorine allergy, for instance. All I need to get a severe case of sinusitis are minuscule concentrations of free chlorine in the water.
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Maybe it is because a smoker collects all of the toxins/smoke/etc. in their lungs and the cough is the body's reaction to expel everything via phlegm.  If you give the heavy smoker the cough suppressant, it may depress the cough reflex, they could build up phlegm, and maybe be prone to an infection?  Just a guess, not medical knowledge!
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It is not uncommom for smokers to develop a respiratory infection or some inflammation after quiting.  If it gets bad or has been persistent, please see your physician.
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It's just like ciggarette smoke more harmful breathe in than the person who is smoking it.Just stay away from any kind of smoke.
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Yes, although I was a former 3 day a day smoker, I now find it smells horrible.  Worse, I am allergic to it.  I get ill if smoke blows my way.  I once was in the car with a chain smoker I was dating.  I started having chest pains and went to the hospital.  They said it was due to the smoke and that if I had not breathed this medicine they gave me, my chest pains would have continued (indefinitely??).  why should I have to spend time and money and fear cause someone else wants to smoke when I try to live a healthy lifestyle.\n\nI had breast cancer 15 years ago and several of the women in the waiting room were victims of lung cancer (which is always fatal) who had never smoked.  Their husbands had smoked.  The issue was good and people had already voted down issue 4 once before...plus they were trying to make it a constitutional amendment to allow smoking in some places against the will of the majority who already said no the first time.
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I doubt very much it has to do with someone else's smoking habits.  You really should get that checked out by a doctor.  A couple of possibilites could be Fibromyalgia or Lupus.  Your mom would probably know if there is a history of these disorders in your family. But definatley have it checked out....Feel better girl.
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I'm a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering, I study Emphysema (a disease people get when they smoke cigarettes). There are over 4000 toxins in cigarette smoke. Most of them are still unknown. Nicotine is probably the worst toxin as it stops and eventually kills the epithelial cells in the lining of the lung, these cells have tiny hairs that usually "beat" upwards causing the mucus to come up to your throat and get swalloed. With that not working, mucus accumulates in the lung. When you smoke your mucus in filled with those 4000 toxins and your body reacts by secreting an enzyme called "trypsin" into your lungs. Trypsin is the same enzyme that your stomach uses to digest steak. Think of how powerfull it is. After years of smoking, your lungs will have been exposed to so much trypsin that you will litterally have holes in your lung. That is the definition of emphysema. \nYou should tell your BF to stop smoking while he's still young. Maybe you should buy him some nicotine patches and gum for christas. it's going to be a very difficult time so be supportive.\nGood luck!\nAnnie
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It depends on your body.  One day you could be allergric and another day your fine.  It also depends on how much oil or perfume is in the incense and what other stuff is in it.  Try taking anti-histamines
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Unfortunately not but the symptoms can be controlled by medication and elimination of allergens.\n\nhttp://www.healthywomen.org/healthtopics/allergies/keyqa
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Mickey: I've held different positions on this issue at different times in my life. When I was young and dating a smoker, none of this "smoke-free" stuff had been written into law. I put up with it, although I never thought it was pleasant. Lately, though, I have learned that one of the triggers of my lifelong suffering with killer migraines is...guess what? Cigarette smoke. NOW, I'm a big advocate of smoke-free workplaces and restaurants. Yes, it's self serving, but I'm not the only one who is affected by second hand smoke in an extreme degree. Do you care for your own health and the health of others around you?
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Let us examine the facts.\n\n1.  constant irritation can cause tumors to develop.  Smoking irritates the lining of the lungs.  You don't smoke periodically; therefore, you have constant irritation.\n\n2.  nicotine irritates the lining of the artery wall and thereby causes plaque to adhere to the walls increasing your risk of having either a heart attack or a stroke.\n\n3.  smoking causes irritation of the bladder and the bowels on the same premises that nicotine causes the irritation.  Thereby increasing your risk of having colon and bladder cancer.\n\n4.  finally, after 50 years of research of people who don't believe in God because you can't prove he exists scientifically, leaves little doubt in this nurse's mind that there is no link between smoking and certain cancers.\n\nDisclaimer:  there are four types of lung cancer.  The type usually caused by cancer is small oat cell carcinoma.  The most difficult to treat and with little success.
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there are many chemicals in cigarette.\n\nclick the link below