Secondhand Smoke - Is Your Heath Being Affected ?

Have you ever wondered if your health is being affected by secondhand smoke. Let's look at some of the facts that are now available. Family health is important to us all, protecting ourselves and family members is at the forefront of our minds, it starts with knowing the truth.

It's no longer just guesswork, the research has been done and in many cases the results are quite alarming. They even have a scientific name for it "Environmental tobacco smoke" or ETS, and has now been classified by the environmental protection agency. It's considered a known cancer-causing carcinogen in humans, now that should get your attention if you or any family member is being exposed to any secondhand smoke.

The evidence is know available that secondhand smoke can produce all the health problems that the smokers themselves suffer. Even many smokers themselves don't realise that their habit is compromising the health of their young children in the family home and car.

In the United States alone close to 50,000 deaths in non-smokers are contributed to cancer and heart disease caused by secondhand smoke (ETS), that's a rather frightening statistic. So it's very much in your interest to be aware of the conditions in which you live or work.

What are the risk free levels of secondhand smoke, well there are no risk free levels other than a smoke free environment. The good news is that a lot of the law makers have realised that changes need to be made and are banning smoking from many public places, and the same is applied to the work place of many individuals. But the full effect will not be felt until it is applied across the board in all public places, including public transport, hotels, bars and restaurants etc.

More and more smokers understand the need to go outside away from bystanders and family members, and that's a good thing as the awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke becomes more widely known. It's hard to understand why so many people smoke when the health effects are so widely known these days, but you have to remember that a lot of smokers began when it was a fashionable, cool thing to do. It highly addictive and not an easy habit to break, many are realising that it makes sense to quit and should be given as much encouragement and help as they need.

Further information on secondhand smoke and help on how to quit smoking is freely available to bring you up to date on this sneaky killer.

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