1 Negative Impacts For Passive Smokers

When the sick due to unhealthy behavior, it is a natural thing. But what about for people who are sick, as a result of the acts of others? It's an unfair thing. So that happens to people who are forced to inhale cigarette smoke from people smoking around them.

Disease that can be suffered by passive smokers are no better than active smokers. They become easy to suffer from cancer, heart disease, lung and other diseases that kill. They are surrounded by cigarette smoke will die sooner than those living with clean air. And death rates rose 15% higher.

From a study of 1263 patients with lung cancer who never smoked, it appears that those who become passive smokers in the home are at increased risk of lung cancer by 18%. When this happens in a long time, 30 years, the risk increased to 23%. If secondhand smoke in the workplace or social life, the risk of lung cancer will increase to 16% is if it lasts longer, up to 20 years, will increase again to 27% risk.

Cigarette smoke is known to have contained about 4,000 chemicals, of which 60 of them are known to cause cancer. The U.S. government itself estimates that 3,000 deaths occur annually due to lung cancer in those who do not smoke as a result of secondhand smoke.