How does second hand smoke affect your health?
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There has been a mind-control program regarding second-hand smoke instigated by the controllers of the medical industry.\nThey are struggling to hide the fact that vaccinations are killing people, and they put it down to second hand smoke and sun bathing.\nSecond hand smoke has far less effect that the pollution from a passing car, and is certainly far less dangerous than vaccination.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html
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The combinations of being stressed out and smoking are two big risk factors for infections and many illnesses.  Being stressed out lowers the effectiveness of your immune system so that it is easier for you to get an infection.  At the same time, being a smoker makes people more prone to chest infections.  This is because the lungs contain something called cilia, microscopic, finger-like projections in the lungs that help move mucus that contains debris and other things like bacteria that has been inhaled.  When someone smokes, the chemicals in the cigarette basically paralize the cilia so that they cannot move the mucus and bacteria up out of the lungs.  This is why smokers get what is known as smoker's cough.  It is their body trying to get rid of all the nasty stuff that has accumilated in their lungs.  \n\nSo, you have two risk factors against you, the stress and the smoking.  Next comes bronchitis and possibly pneumonia.  After that, your lung cells are at risk of mutating and becoming something between normal cells and cancer cells.  At this stage, you can still stop smoking and your cells can go back to a relitively normal state and your cilia will be active once again. But after lung cells have changed to cancer cells, they cannot be changed back but only distroyed to prevent more cancer cells.  I would very much so recommend you stop smoking.  It may seem in the short run that it is helping you cope with stress, but in the long run it is causing you more by allowing you to get so many chest infections and other problems in the future.  \n\nI know this all seems harsh, but it is the truth.  Better you find out the truth so that you can stop things from happening to you before they do.  I hope everything goes well for you.\n\nAnother thing, taking antibiotics too often can cause the germs in your body that do survive to become resistent to the antibiotics.  This can basically create a super germ that antibiotics can no longer kill, and if that germ multiplies, well then you have a stronger germ that can't be killed by antibiotics.  It also makes you more prone to germs in hospitals.  Some doctor's have been known to give out antibiotics way more than neccisary, so I recommend you to read the article i have provided in the sources below.\n\nEDIT: it seems to me you should go see a phyciatrist.  I know there are certain stresses out there that are unavoidable, but being able to talk to someone and possibly getting on a medication that can help calm you might help out.  And everytime you pick up a cigarette, try to make yourself think of some of the things I have said, mainly that the cigarette is making you more stressed in the long run and that you would be way more stressed out than you are now if you had pnemonia or lung cancer on top of all of that.  Best of wishes to you.
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The dangerous affect that come from second hand cigarette smoke are mostly the result of the tar present in cirgarettes (yes nicotene may have a slight effect, but I have never heard of widespread nicotene addiction from second hand smoke) There are other minor chemicals but most of the damage to the physical system I believe happens because of tar (though I have no scientific proof to back this up, because I don't feel like looking for it)\nTar is also formed when marijuana is smoked, however I do not know the relative quantities between tar formed from burning tabacco vs. burning cannibus, so I do not know which is more dangerous.  There is an increased risk of getting lung cancer from smoking weed, however scientists don't yet know if there is an higher or lower probability of lung cancer between the two, probably because in most places where they can do the research, it is illegal to do the research.  \nI do think that the chances of a second hand high are a lot higher with marijuana then with cigarettes, however, I do not think there is any increase in the chance of addiction.
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Secondhand smoke contains twice as much tar and nicotine per unit volume as does smoke inhaled from a cigarette. It contains 3X as much cancer-causing benzpyrene, 5X as much carbon monoxide, and 50X as much ammonia. Secondhand smoke from pipes and cigars is equally as harmful, if not more so.\n\nSecond hand smoke is a toxic cocktail consisting of poisons and carcinogens. There are over 4000 chemical compounds in second hand smoke; 200 of which are known to be poisonous, and upwards of 60 have been identified as carcinogens.\n\nWhen a cigarette is smoked, about half of the smoke is inhaled / exhaled (mainstream smoke) by the smoker and the other half floats around in the air(sidestream smoke).\n\n No one should be forced to breathe in air tainted with cigarette smoke.
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Some of the immediate effects of passive smoking (second hand smoke) 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.\n\nShort term exposure to tobacco smoke also has a measurable effect on the heart in non-smokers.  Just 30 minutes exposure  is enough to reduce coronary blood flow.
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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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Nothing good! The nicotine causes a temporary feeling of well being, but it is addicting. There are also many other chemicals in it which are harmful. Inhaling these chemicals harms the lungs,organs that are a major detoxifier of the body. That's why smoking kills: the lungs are damaged and the bodies ability to detox itself is greatly diminshed=everything else being gradually poisoned in the body. Cancer is created from the damaged, mutant cells in the lungs...the cancer also spreads to other parts of the body via the circulatory system (capillaries in the lungs and surrounding tissues)...then the body is so toxic it breaks down completely-and dies.
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ANY amount of smoking is harmful to your body. \nThis is from an article by Marie Claire magazine called "what smoke does to your body"\n*Causes strokes. Nicotine reaches the brain 10 seconds after you inhale\n*Gives you bad breath and yellow teeth. Associated with gum disease and mouth cancer\n*Gives you a two times higher risk of heart attack than a non smoker. Just one to five cigs a day can double your risk\n*Raises risk of breast cancer if you started smoking within 5 years of your first menstral period\n*Raises risk for stomach and peptic ulcers\n*In addition to lung cancer, smoking raises risk tenfold of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), a collection of fatal lung diseases\n*increases the odds that you wont ovulate or concieve. Smoking when pregnant increases miscarriage risk by 39%\n*Smokers have more severe PMS and 50% more cramps\n*the longer you smoke, the higher your risk for cervical cancer and colar rectal cancer\n*Hardens your arteries, raising odds for high blood pressure and heart attacks\n*Smoking can dampen libido by constricting blood flow to your clitoris\n*smoking may make bones thinner and more fragile, raising your risk of fractures\n*prematurely ages your skin by 10-20 years
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I smoke, and I go out of my way to find a spot to smoke where no children (or anyone else, really) are around or a spot designated for smoking. I understand that second-hand smoke is harmful to children (and others); however, if I am in a designated smoking area and then someone comes around with their children, I am unlikely to move or snuff out my cigarette. Afterall, I was there first, and no one is forcing them to be there. \n\nOn the same token, I don't go to playgrounds to smoke. It's a matter of respect, in my opinion. I'll smoke in an out-of-the-way area out of respect for others, and usually I'll move if I find I am still too close to others. If someone comes into a *designated* smoking area with their children and begin to make a big scene complete with couching and hacking, I most certainly will not move.
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you can get 2nd hand smoke from ANYTHING! my big bro died last year from 2nd hand smoke and he NEVER smoked anything in his life. 4 years of doctors and their probing said any type of smoke, especially cig's, caused his demise. he was NOT old, just not immune to any type of smoke.\n\nSMOKE IS SMOKE..........NO MATTER WHAT KIND, IT's baddddddd.
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wedmd.com has some links that should help you. Just type in secondhand smoke and tasting in the search engine.
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Definitely should be laws against this! No child should have to breathe in second hand smoke- it's cruel. Parents with any sense wouldn't smoke around their kids.
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The EPA has done study upon study on second hand smoke and the only thing they can definitely say is that it makes your hair and clothes smell bad.  The fact is: ciggarette smoke is a carcinogen which falls under the "one hit theory".  That means one exposure can lead to cancer, or a billion exposures lead to cancer.  It effects everyone differently.  You hear about 90 year smokers living til 110, or someone dying from lung cancer at the age of 30 who has never had a smoke.  Second hand smoke is awful, because it makes people smell bad and just isn't fun to be around, but it has not proven to be harmful.
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The health effects of tobacco smoking are related to direct tobacco smoking, as well as passive smoking, inhalation of environmental or secondhand tobacco smoke.\n\nThe United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes tobacco use as "the single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an important cause of premature death worldwide".[1]\n\nAn indirect public health problem posed by cigarettes is that of accidental fires, usually linked with consumption of alcohol. Numerous cigarette designs have been proposed, some by tobacco companies themselves, which would extinguish a cigarette left unattended for more than a minute or two, thereby reducing the risk of fire. However the tobacco companies have historically resisted this idea, on the grounds that the nuisance involved in having to relight a cigarette left untouched for too long would reduce their sales. In fact, untreated tobacco formed into a cigarette will extinguish itself relatively quickly if left alone, and as a result cigarette tobacco is treated chemically to allow it to smolder indefinitely.\n\nThe main health risks in tobacco pertain to diseases of the cardiovascular system, in particular smoking being a major risk factor for a myocardial infarction (heart attack), diseases of the respiratory tract such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and emphysema, and cancer, particularly lung cancer and cancers of the larynx and tongue. Prior to World War I, lung cancer was considered to be a rare disease, which most physicians would never see during their career. With the postwar rise in popularity of cigarette smoking, however, came a virtual epidemic of lung cancer.\n\nA person's increased risk of contracting disease is directly proportional to the length of time that a person continues to smoke as well as the amount smoked. However, if someone stops smoking, then these chances steadily although gradually decrease as the damage to their body is repaired.\n\nDiseases linked to smoking tobacco cigarettes include:\n\nlung cancer and other cancers \nstroke \nperipheral vascular disease \nbirth defects of pregnant smokers' offspring \nBuerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans) \nimpotence chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and chronic bronchitis in particular \nMore likely to develop cataracts that may cause blindness \nMore likely to develop cataracts that may cause blindness \n \nThe incidence of lung cancer is highly correlated with smoking.Cigar and pipe smokers tend to inhale less smoke than cigarette smokers, so their risk of lung cancer is lower but is still several times higher than the risk for nonsmokers. Pipe and cigar smokers are also at risk for cancers of the oral cavity, larynx (voice box), or esophagus, a risk which was widely hypothesized before any link between smoking and cancer was scientifically proved as seen in the news coverage of the tobacco-related cancers of two American presidents; Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885 at age sixty-three after a long and painful public battle with throat cancer which was widely assumed at the time to be the result of his lifelong cigar habit, and his successor Grover Cleveland was diagnosed in 1893 with cancer of the left jaw, which was frequently remarked upon by the press and public as the side where he usually had a cigar clamped. Similarly, cancer of the mouth and jaw is also a risk for chewing tobacco. The benefits of smoking cessation are immediate: blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature return to normal range; heart attack risk decreases; ability to smell and taste is enhanced; circulation improves.\n\nIt is generally assumed that the major motivational factor behind smoking is the nicotine it contains. However, the practice of ingesting the smoke from a smoldering leaf generates an enormous number of active chemical compounds, loosely lumped together as 'tar', many of which are biologically react
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NO. \n\n1. Secondhand smoke is DANGEROUS and the SMOKE does not know to stay out of the "non-smoking" section.\n\n2. An addictive narcotic is not added to fast food.\n\n3. Smoking does more damage than poor eating habits.\n\n4. The fast food makers did not LIE about what is in their products.
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yes, this is a good idea because peoples health will be better and those who dont smoke will not suffer from second hand smoking. my mother smokes and it bothers me a lot because of the diseases and other problems she can get just from smoking. Also because since all the other drugs such as pot is illegal smoking is also a drug therefore it too should be illegal.
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No! \n\nFor those that say "second hand smoke is more harmful then smoking"....ummm, how do you know this?  Smokers get '2nd hand smoke', too.  Just because you smoke, you are not freed from 2nd hand smoke.\n\nThe United States Supreme Court overrulled the EPA's 'findings' in 1998 saying that it was junk science and there is no link between 2nd hand smoke and ANY diesase.  The fact of the matter is that 2nd hand smoke is so dispersed into the atmosphere that it is impossible for it to cause problems other than simple irritations.\n\nAnti-tobacco is a much larger money machine than the evil 'big-tobacco' and that is why this information was not widely distributed.  Do a little research on this and you will find out the real truth.