Second-Hand Smoke
When you smoke around friends or family, you endanger their health as much as yours.
- Babies exposed to cigarette smoke have an increased risk of dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and children of smokers are more likely to develop asthma.
- It has 40 toxins that are as bad as radon, asbestos, arsenic, and benzene.
- The levels of some of the toxins are higher in secondhand smoke than in the smoke inhaled from smoking a cigarette.
- Every year, about 3,000 adult non-smokers die from lung cancer and 35,000 from heart disease nationwide.
For more information, read the Surgeon General’s new report.
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