How can you protect your loved ones?
Reduce the amount of secondhand smoke your family breathes in, help yourself quit smoking and stay smoke free, asking people not to smoke around you or in your home, and car. And make sure people who are looking after your children don’t smoke.
Also choose smoke free restaurants, avoid indoor public places that allow smoking.
There is no risk free level of secondhand smoke exposure, a brief exposure can be harmful to your health. …show more content…
Secondhand smoke has 70 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer such as lung cancer.
Heart disease is caused by breathing in secondhand smoke, it is more likely that you will get heart disease, have a heart attack and die early.
Breathing problems can cause coughing, extra phlegm, wheezing and shortness of breath.
Secondhand smoke is especially dangerous for children, babies and women who are pregnant.
Some of the more serious health effects include:
SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) weak lungs severe asthema breathing problems ear infections
Young children are the most affected by secondhand smoke and least able to avoid it. Which will cause them to get sick more often, and have lung infections.
Secondhand smoke causes 7,330 deaths from lung cancer and 33,950 deaths from heart disease each year.
Between 1964 and 2014 2.5 million people died from exposure to secondhand smoke.
The lung cancer secondhand smoke effects:
Laynx (voice box)
Pharynx (throat)
Nasal sinuses
Brain
Breast
Bladder
Lymphoma …show more content…
Protect the people you love by not smoking around them or letting anyone else smoke near you or in your house.
Pick the right places to go, don't go to places that let people smoke.
I would eliminate all possible ways it could get to your loved ones.
Also I would teach my children the reasoning that smoking is bad, and why not to ever start.
Nonsmokers are the most affected by secondhand smoke, children and adults.
Someone needs to put a stop to this before the world dies away. Everyone knows that it can kill you, then why do people still keep smoking.
No one gets a easy way out of this, there will always be a side effect, and a after effect.
Secondhand smoke is just as bad and even worse.
Death and disease is never a good thing when you are dealing with secondhand smoke, especially if the loved one that died, was a child.
Keep away from the dangers of secondhand smoke, to be safe I would not be around people who smoke and where you or your children can breath it in.
Children and adults are affected by diseases that secondhand smoke can cause.
If we teach our children to stay away from people who smoke and not be influenced to smoke. If people everywhere started to stop smoking.
The world would