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Smoking is the most deadly drug in the world. It kills 120,000 people each year in
the United Kingdom, and almost 90% of patients with lung cancer are attributable to smoking. However, smokers around the world are not the only ones in danger. Not only smokers, people around them are also in risk. Second hand smoking is as harmful as direct smoking. It is proven by research that exposure to other people’s smoke can increase the risk of cancer and heart disease. Just being near someone smoking can get non-smokers cancer or heart disease. It places extra stress on the heart and affects the body’s capability to use oxygen. There are infinate amount of diseases and problems a second hand smoking can cause.
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Smoking is considered a dangerous drug that kills numerous people around the
world. However, smoking is not illegal in most of the countries. This gives advantages for the smokers, but also sets a higher percentage of death from smoking. Smoking has now been recognized as a definite cause of cancer. For smokers, organs such as oral cavity, esophagus, lungs, and bronchus are at the greatest risk. Among smokers, rates of cancer of the cervix, pancreas, bladder, kidney, stomach, and hematopoietic tissue are increase
50% to 200% over rates in nonsmokers. Smoke contains carcinogens that impact carcinogenesis, not mattering with age. Death rates of lung cancer and heart disease continue to rise, and based on current smoking patterns, this rate will continue to increase.
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Most of the people believe that being near someone smoking and breathing in
smoke is not as harmful as the harm of the actual smoker. However, through research, it is proven that second hand smoking is very harmful and dangerous. Second hand smoking causes lung cancer which is increased by 20% to 30% with people who live with smokers.
Most of the disease from second hand smoking is in children and adult non-smokers.