| If you are looking to learn about the dangers of | | | | Here is a list of problems commonly found in children |
| second smoke for the good of your family's health, | | | | infants who frequently breathe in second hand |
| then this article has some important information you | | | | smoke: |
| are not going to want to miss. First I will introduce | | | | SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) |
| you to environmental smoke and it's dangers. I will | | | | Ear infections |
| then discuss the reasons it is dangerous and the | | | | Coughing, Asthma, Bronchitis, Pnuemonia |
| problems it can cause. | | | | Learning and behavioural difficulties |
| Finally I will discuss how selfish and thoughtless the | | | | The above lists are but the tip of the "problems |
| unrepentant smoker is that smokes around children | | | | caused by frequent inhaling second hand smoke" |
| and other family members. At the conclusion of this | | | | iceberg. |
| article, I'm sure you will feel the same. | | | | It is so unjust that someone's health and even their |
| Second hand smoke (also known as environmental | | | | life can be put in endanger from tobacco smoke |
| smoke) is tobacco smoke that is inhaled involuntarily | | | | when they don't even smoke. If an individual chooses |
| by someone other than the smoker. | | | | to smoke that is their priority, it is their choice, they |
| There are two kinds of second hand smoke, these | | | | know the dangers and they know consequences. But |
| are: | | | | why should someone who has made the right |
| Side stream: Smoke that is released directly from the | | | | choices (or is not yet old enough to even make a |
| tobacco product (cigarette, cigar, pipe etc) | | | | choice) ever be put in a position where they have to |
| Mainstream: Smoke that is that has been inhaled and | | | | still breathe in tobacco smoke? |
| then breathed out by the smoker | | | | Shouldn't this be a violation of human rights, after all |
| So what is it that makes second hand smoke so | | | | their health and life is being put in danger from |
| dangerous? | | | | absolutely no fault of their own? |
| Tobacco smoke contains over 4000 chemicals and | | | | For many non smokers in our society, second hand |
| poisons which are hazardous to the health of human | | | | smoke is totally unavoidable. It is in their homes, at |
| beings. Second hand smoke contains the same | | | | their place of work, in friend's cars etc. No matter |
| amount of chemicals and poisons and is just as | | | | how much effort some non smokers make to avoid |
| dangerous. Many smokers fail to realise this and | | | | breathing in others smoke, they simply can't. |
| underestimate just how dangerous it is to smoke | | | | Smokers need to wake up and realise what they are |
| around others. Other smokers simply choose to | | | | actually doing to those around them. Not only is at a |
| ignore the facts. | | | | selfish act to make others breathe in their second |
| Here is a list of problems commonly found in adults | | | | hand smoke, but it is a harmful and potentially lethal |
| who frequently breathe in second hand smoke: | | | | one. They are the ones who choose to smoke so |
| Lung Disease | | | | they should be the ones to make the effort to |
| Cancer of the sinus and/or lungs | | | | ensure others don't breathe in their second hand |
| Stroke | | | | smoke. |
| Weakened immune system (which could lead to | | | | There is only one foolproof way of ensuring this |
| numerous illnesses) | | | | happens and that is to quit smoking. |
| Coughing, Asthma, Bronchitis, Pnuemonia | | | | |