Second Hand Smoke

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Second Hand Smoke

• Jennifer Brooks

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Intro

• Secondhand smoke, is also referred to as
  environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The smoke is
  involuntarily inhaled by everyone, and causes
  health effects in none smokers such as cancer,
  respiratory infections, and asthma.

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Statistics

• Secondhand smoke causes approximately 3,400 lung
  cancer deaths and 22,700-69,600 heart disease
  deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States
  each year.
• Currently, 14 states have passed strong smoking
  laws
• New research indicates that private research
  conducted by cigarette company Philip Morris in
  the 1980s showed that secondhand smoke was highly
  toxic, yet the company suppressed the finding
  during the next two decades
• Secondhand smoke is responsible for between
  150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract
  infections in infants and children under 18
  months of age, resulting in between 7,500 and
  15,000 hospitalizations each year, and causes
  1,900 to 2,700 sudden infant death syndrome.

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Children and Second hand Smoke

• Can lead to an increase in bladder cancer
• Can cause asthma
• Children more vulnerable to harmful effects of
  tobacco

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Smoking and Newborns

• Exposure to second hand smoke can cause reduced
  lung function in infants
• symptoms of respiratory-tract irritation (cough,
  excess phlegm and wheezing), fluid buildup in the
  ear, lower-respiratory-tract infections
  (including bronchitis and pneumonia), episodes of
  asthma and/or increased severity of asthmatic
  symptoms.
• Second hand smoke affects breast milk because the
  nicotine from cigarettes can get into the milk

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Smoking in Public places

• Government tries to ban in public smoking
• Restaurants
• Outside or around hospitals
• Around Court houses
• Said to cut down on effects of lung cancer

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Effect on body

• Wrinkles around eyes and mouth
• Dry, unhealthy skin
• Increased risk of cancer
• 2-3 times more likely to have a heart attack
  compared to a non-smoker
• Raises blood pressure
• Causes blood clots
• Gum disease
• Tooth Decay

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Works Cited

• (2006, November 9). Second hand smoke
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  econd-hand-smoke-increases-cancer-risk-children-4
  57203.htm
• (2006, August). Second hand smoke fact
  sheet. Retrieved November 14, 2006, from American
  Lung Association Websitehttp//www.lungusa.org/si
  te/pp.asp?cdvLUK9O0Eb3542
• Citation (2005, July). Second hand smoke
  during pregnancy is risky. Retrieved November 14,
  2006, from Medical News Today Web site
  http//www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?ne
  wsid28119
• no author, What smoking does to your
  body. Retrieved November 21, 2006, from Click 2
  Quit Web site http//www.click2quit.co.uk/why_qui
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