Passive Smoking is Harmful

Smoking means inhaling the tobacco fumes in the form of cigarettes, cigars and pipes. Passive smoking is inhaling the smoke blown out by the person who is smoking.

Due the presence of filters in the cigarettes the side smoke of it is considered more harmful than the inhaled smoke.

Passive smoking hurts the eyes, nose, throat and lungs. The smoke blown out contains various chemicals like carbon monoxide, tar and some poisonous gases too. These gases when combined with the gases present in the air cause more harmful effect. These may even stick to your clothes, hands or furniture and is inhaled later while you clean these objects.

If one is exposed to passive smoking for long then he or she can have breathing problems and these can get converted to serious asthma attacks. Other known problems that may occur through passive smoking include lung cancers, heart problems and bronchitis.

The worst affected one’s with passive smoking are the children. They can develop ear, nose and throat infections and even asthma. Lung infection is also seen in many cases. They are more prone to become smokers when they become adults.

People working in bars are at high risk of getting all the diseases as they inhale various combined fumes.

If a person has been smoking for a long time with non- smoker friends or with the family then he is putting them on high risk of premature death and heart attacks.

Women smoking while pregnant can cause harm to the developing baby. They tend to deliver premature and low birth weight babies.

Considering various ill effects of passive smoking, it has now been banned in various public places such as bars, hotels, hospitals, airports and many other places.

It is necessary to quit smoking. Not only it’s good for you but by doing so you are saving your loved ones and your co-workers.