The consequences of smoking to secondary smoker are :
* Bad skin. Because smoking restricts blood vessels, it can prevent oxygen and nutrients from getting to the skin — which is why smokers often appear pale and unhealthy. An Italian study also linked smoking to an increased risk of getting a type of skin rash called psoriasis. * Bad breath. Cigarettes leave smokers with a condition called halitosis, or persistent bad breath. * Bad-smelling clothes and hair. The smell of stale smoke tends to linger — not just on people's clothing, but on their hair, furniture, and cars. And it's often hard to get the smell of smoke out. * Reduced athletic performance. People who smoke usually can't compete with nonsmoking peers because the physical effects of smoking (like rapid heartbeat, decreased circulation, and shortness of breath) impair sports performance. * Greater risk of injury and slower healing time. Smoking affects the body's ability to produce collagen, so common sports injuries, such as damage to tendons and ligaments, will heal more slowly in smokers than nonsmokers. * Increased risk of illness. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia than nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions, like asthma, become more sick if they smoke (and often if they're just around people who smoke). Because teens who smoke as a way to manage weight often light up instead of eating, their bodies lack the nutrients they need to grow, develop, and fight off illness properly.
Smoking has been shown to cause low birthweight in babies. Some experts believe that since smoking constricts blood vessels, it can decrease the amount of oxygen getting to the baby. Women who smoke also increase their risk of miscarriage, placental abruption and pre-term birth.
Smoking during pregnancy pre-disposes the baby to SIDS. In fact, if the mother smokes, she increases her baby's risk of SIDS by three times. Smoking can also cause respiratory problems such as asthma, which can affect the baby even if the mother quits smoking after her baby is born. What if the mother lives with a smoker?
Secondary smoke can also be a factor if you live with or spend a lot of time with someone who smokes. Risks from secondary smoke include increasing the chance of having a low birthweight baby. Research also shows that secondary smoke doubles the baby's risk of SIDS.
A smoking environment leads to more health problems for the child. Children who live in a smoking environment suffer from more illnesses such as bronchitis and pneumonia as well as chronic respiratory problems such as asmtha. If either of the parents smoke, it greatly increases the chances that the child will become a smoker when they are older. Obviously the risk of lung cancer is also higher in families who are affected by secondary smoke. What should mothers do to prevent effects of secondary smoking?
As inconvenient as it might be for a heavy smoker, mothers should be adamant about protecting their baby from the effects of secondary smoking in the home. Smoking should not be allowed in the home at all or in the presence of infants or children. Mother should request to be seated in non-smoking areas in restaurants. If other patrons violate the non-smoking section, speak up politely and ask the server to be seated elsewhere or to ask the other patron to refrain from smoking in the non-smoking section.
There are fewer more important priorities than the health of our unborn babies and long-term health of our children.
Are you affected by secondary smoke? What have you done to manage it? Tell us.
The dangers of and effects of secondary smoke have been widely publicized. It is now well known that victims of secondary smoke exposure are much more likely to develop smoke related illnesses including lung cancer, asthma and other cancers in the body. Secondary smoke has also been linked to lesser chronic lung problems like chronic bronchitis and pneumonia, heart disease, eye and nose irritation and sinus cancer. Although it is not clear what amount of second hand smoke must be inhaled in order to spark these illnesses, the link between a number of medical conditions and second hand smoke is clear.
People affected by second hand smoke are inhaling not only the smoke that is emitted to the air from the lit cigarette, but also the smoke being exhaled from the smoker themselves. They are inhaling and being exposed to many of the same carcinogenic chemicals as the smoker and can therefore develop similar health problems. If a person is forced into second hand smoke exposure, they may have a case against the workplace, person or organization that has forced this dangerous smoke upon them.
For instance, in some cases, workers have been forced into environments with smokers, although they are not smokers themselves. Flight attendants and wait staff are both good examples of employees who have been exposed to second hand smoke simply because of their profession. Today there has been a major movement to make these work environments safer for employees, now that the dangers of second hand smoke are known.
In some cases, employees exposed to long term second hand smoke have been able to sue their employers for creating and exposing them to a dangerous and unhealthy work environment. Just this year in fact, a lawsuit pending in Georgia was settled, to the benefit of the plaintiff, in regards to this issue. The man, a worker for the railroad, was consistently exposed to cigarette smoke in bunkhouses where smoking was permitted. He developed lung cancer and died and his widow pursued the claim. Although the case did not make it to court, the settlement did favor the plaintiff – an indication of where the case might have gone had it been completed.
There are also a number of class action lawsuits, brought by flight attendants, against various airlines for providing a dangerous work environment when smoking was allowed on flights. Specifically, in one case, a group of Northwest flight attendants banded together and brought a class action lawsuit against Northwest Airlines because they were exposed to secondhand smoke on long flights to Asia long after smoking was banned on domestic flights in the US.
If you feel you have been forced to endure second hand smoke and secondary smoke exposure and that it was beyond your control to leave the situation, you should consider contacting an experienced tobacco lawsuit attorney. Depending on your case, and any applied statutes of limitations, you might have a claim for compensatory damages. Tobacco lawsuits can be hard to win, but if you have been injured because of tobacco or cigarettes, and specifically secondary smoke exposure, you should contact an attorney as soon as possible.
If your spouse, sibling, or someone else who shares your home smokes, urge them to quit. Long suspected as harmful, so-called 'passive' or 'second hand' smoke is now considered group A, or known human carcinogen. This puts it in the same category as such dangerous cancer-causing substances as asbestos.
Infants and young children whose parents smoke are among the most seriously affected by exposure to second hand smoke, being at increased risk of lower respiratory infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis. Asthmatic children are at greater risk if they have 'passive' smokers around them. But adults are also harmed by second hand smoke, experts say. Numerous studies, which typically looked at non-smoking wives and their exposure to their husband's cigarette smoking, have found exposure to tobacco smoke harmful. Health experts blame 'passive' smoke for the deaths of up to forty thousand non-smokers annually. That is nearly the number of women who die each year from breast cancer!
Smoking damages the heart. Since the damage can come from the tobacco smoke you inhale voluntarily, or from someone else's cigarette, it is imperative that you not be exposed to cigarette smoke. Obviously, you should not become a prisoner in your smoke-free house. But you should make every effort to discourage public smoking.
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1) is smoking dangerous to our health? 2) how does smoking affecting our health ? 3) how does smoking affecting secondary smoker? 4) how to reduce addiction of smoking? 5) what the goverment should do to overcome this problem ?
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The consequences of smoking to secondary smoker are :
* Bad skin. Because smoking restricts blood vessels, it can prevent oxygen and nutrients from getting to the skin — which is why smokers often appear pale and unhealthy. An Italian study also linked smoking to an increased risk of getting a type of skin rash called psoriasis.
* Bad breath. Cigarettes leave smokers with a condition called halitosis, or persistent bad breath.
* Bad-smelling clothes and hair. The smell of stale smoke tends to linger — not just on people's clothing, but on their hair, furniture, and cars. And it's often hard to get the smell of smoke out.
* Reduced athletic performance. People who smoke usually can't compete with nonsmoking peers because the physical effects of smoking (like rapid heartbeat, decreased circulation, and shortness of breath) impair sports performance.
* Greater risk of injury and slower healing time. Smoking affects the body's ability to produce collagen, so common sports injuries, such as damage to tendons and ligaments, will heal more slowly in smokers than nonsmokers.
* Increased risk of illness. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia than nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions, like asthma, become more sick if they smoke (and often if they're just around people who smoke). Because teens who smoke as a way to manage weight often light up instead of eating, their bodies lack the nutrients they need to grow, develop, and fight off illness properly.
Effects on the baby when mother smokes
Smoking has been shown to cause low birthweight in babies. Some experts believe that since smoking constricts blood vessels, it can decrease the amount of oxygen getting to the baby. Women who smoke also increase their risk of miscarriage, placental abruption and pre-term birth.
Smoking during pregnancy pre-disposes the baby to SIDS. In fact, if the mother smokes, she increases her baby's risk of SIDS by three times. Smoking can also cause respiratory problems such as asthma, which can affect the baby even if the mother quits smoking after her baby is born.
What if the mother lives with a smoker?
Secondary smoke can also be a factor if you live with or spend a lot of time with someone who smokes. Risks from secondary smoke include increasing the chance of having a low birthweight baby. Research also shows that secondary smoke doubles the baby's risk of SIDS.
A smoking environment leads to more health problems for the child. Children who live in a smoking environment suffer from more illnesses such as bronchitis and pneumonia as well as chronic respiratory problems such as asmtha. If either of the parents smoke, it greatly increases the chances that the child will become a smoker when they are older. Obviously the risk of lung cancer is also higher in families who are affected by secondary smoke.
What should mothers do to prevent effects of secondary smoking?
As inconvenient as it might be for a heavy smoker, mothers should be adamant about protecting their baby from the effects of secondary smoking in the home. Smoking should not be allowed in the home at all or in the presence of infants or children. Mother should request to be seated in non-smoking areas in restaurants. If other patrons violate the non-smoking section, speak up politely and ask the server to be seated elsewhere or to ask the other patron to refrain from smoking in the non-smoking section.
There are fewer more important priorities than the health of our unborn babies and long-term health of our children.
Are you affected by secondary smoke? What have you done to manage it? Tell us.
The dangers of and effects of secondary smoke have been widely publicized. It is now well known that victims of secondary smoke exposure are much more likely to develop smoke related illnesses including lung cancer, asthma and other cancers in the body. Secondary smoke has also been linked to lesser chronic lung problems like chronic bronchitis and pneumonia, heart disease, eye and nose irritation and sinus cancer. Although it is not clear what amount of second hand smoke must be inhaled in order to spark these illnesses, the link between a number of medical conditions and second hand smoke is clear.
People affected by second hand smoke are inhaling not only the smoke that is emitted to the air from the lit cigarette, but also the smoke being exhaled from the smoker themselves. They are inhaling and being exposed to many of the same carcinogenic chemicals as the smoker and can therefore develop similar health problems. If a person is forced into second hand smoke exposure, they may have a case against the workplace, person or organization that has forced this dangerous smoke upon them.
For instance, in some cases, workers have been forced into environments with smokers, although they are not smokers themselves. Flight attendants and wait staff are both good examples of employees who have been exposed to second hand smoke simply because of their profession. Today there has been a major movement to make these work environments safer for employees, now that the dangers of second hand smoke are known.
In some cases, employees exposed to long term second hand smoke have been able to sue their employers for creating and exposing them to a dangerous and unhealthy work environment. Just this year in fact, a lawsuit pending in Georgia was settled, to the benefit of the plaintiff, in regards to this issue. The man, a worker for the railroad, was consistently exposed to cigarette smoke in bunkhouses where smoking was permitted. He developed lung cancer and died and his widow pursued the claim. Although the case did not make it to court, the settlement did favor the plaintiff – an indication of where the case might have gone had it been completed.
There are also a number of class action lawsuits, brought by flight attendants, against various airlines for providing a dangerous work environment when smoking was allowed on flights. Specifically, in one case, a group of Northwest flight attendants banded together and brought a class action lawsuit against Northwest Airlines because they were exposed to secondhand smoke on long flights to Asia long after smoking was banned on domestic flights in the US.
If you feel you have been forced to endure second hand smoke and secondary smoke exposure and that it was beyond your control to leave the situation, you should consider contacting an experienced tobacco lawsuit attorney. Depending on your case, and any applied statutes of limitations, you might have a claim for compensatory damages. Tobacco lawsuits can be hard to win, but if you have been injured because of tobacco or cigarettes, and specifically secondary smoke exposure, you should contact an attorney as soon as possible.
If your spouse, sibling, or someone else who shares your home smokes, urge them to quit. Long suspected as harmful, so-called 'passive' or 'second hand' smoke is now considered group A, or known human carcinogen. This puts it in the same category as such dangerous cancer-causing substances as asbestos.
Infants and young children whose parents smoke are among the most seriously affected by exposure to second hand smoke, being at increased risk of lower respiratory infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis. Asthmatic children are at greater risk if they have 'passive' smokers around them.
But adults are also harmed by second hand smoke, experts say. Numerous studies, which typically looked at non-smoking wives and their exposure to their husband's cigarette smoking, have found exposure to tobacco smoke harmful. Health experts blame 'passive' smoke for the deaths of up to forty thousand non-smokers annually. That is nearly the number of women who die each year from breast cancer!
Smoking damages the heart. Since the damage can come from the tobacco smoke you inhale voluntarily, or from someone else's cigarette, it is imperative that you not be exposed to cigarette smoke. Obviously, you should not become a prisoner in your smoke-free house. But you should make every effort to discourage public smoking.
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