refers to breathing in smoke from people holding burning cigarettes, cigars or pipes near you or breathing in 'mainstream' smoke exhaled by a person smoking near you.
Smoke that drifts from the end of a lit cigarette contains a large number of chemical carcinogens and other toxic substances.
Sometimes these amounts are 30 times higher than smoke inhaled by a smoker.
Recently, scientists have found strong evidence that passive smoking can be harmful to health. It can lead to increased bronchitis, pneumonia and other chest illnesses in children and lung cancer and other lung disease in non-smokers.
But I have to confess ... Sometimes I kind of like it!!
Monday, March 15, 2010
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