Secondhand Smoke Secondhand smoke is dangerous to anyone who breathes it in. There is no safe amount of it. Secondhand smoking is a problem that needs to be stopped because it affects the lives of many innocent people. What is secondhand smoke? According to the American Cancer Society‚ secondhand smoke is defined as‚ "environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Secondhand Smoke is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke that come from burning tobacco: Sidestream smoke – smoke from the lighted end of a cigarette
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SECONDHAND SMOKE Secondhand smoke is defines as the smoke inhaled from a lit cigarette‚ cigar‚ or pipe‚ and the smoke exhaled by a smoker. Non-smokers that inhale second hand smoke actually breathes in almost the same amount of chemicals as a smoker. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4‚000 chemical compounds‚ more than 50 of which are known to cause cancer.6 Chemicals that cause cancer include: Arsenic‚ Benzene‚ Beryllium‚ Butadiene‚ Cadmium‚ Chromium‚ Ethylene Oxide‚ Nickel‚ Polohium-210
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Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Children BY MARCY BUREAU Introduction My name is Marcy Bureau. I chose this topic because I had a lot of exposure to secondhand smoke growing up as a child. It’s a sensitive topic for me because I now have a lot of health issues as a 22 year old adult. I have asthma and I have a very weak immune system. What is secondhand smoke? Secondhand smoke is also known as Environmental Tobacco Smoke‚ or ETS. It’s defined as a combination of the smoke that comes
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Research conducted during the past several decades clearly documents that exposure to secondhand smoke causes death and disease in nonsmokers. Some research indicates that secondhand smoke is more toxic and potentially more dangerous than the smoke that is directly inhaled by the smoker.14‚15 Nationally‚ the US Environmental Protection Agency has found secondhand smoke to be a risk to public health and has classified secondhand smoke as a group A carcinogen‚ the most dangerous class of carcinogen
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Jamason‚ diagnosed with asthma as an infant‚ has never smoked a cigarette. One day‚ he was cleaning up at the fast food restaurant where he worked. Unfortunately‚ he was cleaning near a group of his coworkers that were on their “smoke break”. Shortly after he returned inside he started having trouble breathing. Frantically‚ he called his mother‚ who arrived to find him gasping for air. He was then hospitalized for four days after‚ for something he couldn’t have prevented. Fortunately Jamason Coles
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The loss of my grandmother was the saddest day of my life. My grandmother never smoked a cigarette in her life. She died of heart disease in 1997. Ironically the heart disease was diagnosed as a result of secondhand smoke. My grandparents were married for over fifty years. Even now I still can hear my grandmother saying “Robert you need to put those cigarettes down before they kill you.” Robert‚ my grandfather‚ was a smoker for sixty years. My grandfather would answer back “Well we have
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Secondhand smoke (also known as environmental tobacco smoke) is the smoke a smoker breathes out and that comes from the tip of burning cigarettes‚ pipes‚ and cigars. It contains about 4‚000 chemicals. Many of these chemicals are dangerous; more than 50 are known to cause cancer. Anytime children breathe in secondhand smoke they are exposed to these chemicals. The American Academy Pediatrics (AAP) has conducted research on the effects of thirdhand smoke and found that it is also harmful. Thirdhand
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In the paper I’m going to discuss the externalities of second-hand smoke. Externalities refer to all costs or benefits of a market activity borne by a third party. It’s also the difference between the social and private costs (benefits) of a market activity. When economic agents are not directly involved‚ negative externalities can exist‚ such as pollution. Second-hand smoke is a health hazard at any level (Essentials Of economics‚ Bradley R.Schiller). It’s to be said that smoking bans are the
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of phoenix | Lung cancer | Rough draft | Trichelle McDaniel 1/15/2013 COM/172Mrs. Molly Holmes | I. Introduction II. What are the causes of lung cancer? A. Smoking B. Family history of lung cancer 1. Does secondhand smoke affects one’s health? III. What are the different types of lung cancer? A. Non-small cell lung cancer B. Small cell lung cancer 1. How is it categorized? IV. Who will be at higher risk men or women? A. Is there any difference
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Debate: Second-Hand Smoke in Public Places Being the independent country that the United States has become‚ there has also been the controversial topics for debate: abortions‚ use of handguns‚ and smoking in public. Smoking does a lot of things such as cause air pollution‚ harming nonsmokers‚ and harming the smokers themselves. The biggest problems are the locations for controversial smoking which is restaurants and movie theaters. Second-hand smoke‚ also known as passive smoke‚ is the combination
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