Passive Smoking: ‘Smoking is injurious to health’..we must have come across this line countless times. Smoking badly affects health. This increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, even lung cancer. According to a WHO report, about 14 thousand people lose their lives every day due to smoking. Not only smoking cigarettes, but those who are standing around the cigarette smoker are also harmed by it. This is called passive smoking. It is very harmful and gradually cigarette smoke can destroy your health. Let’s know about it..
What is Passive Smoking
The smoke that comes out of cigarette, bidi or cigar is poisonous. In a way, it can also be called the residue of smoke. It sticks to your hair, skin, clothes, luggage, room, car, carpet and even children’s toys. When cigarette smoke comes out, it comes in contact with toxic elements and reacts chemically. After this it becomes even more dangerous. Now even if you have not smoked, you can still come in contact with cigarette smoke. This is called passive smoking. These are such chemicals, which badly affect our health.
pregnant women careful
Passive smoking has the most effect on pregnant women. This also harms the child growing in the womb. It has been told in a research that passive smoking causes problems in the development of the lungs of the unborn child. When a child is born, it may have respiratory diseases.
destroys the immune system
Passive smoking weakens the immune system of young children. This can lead to problems like asthma, ear infections, falling sick again and again and pneumonia. Not only this, problems related to pancreas, kidney disease, mouth disease can also cause problems due to passive smoking. There can also be problems in the throat.
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