Do you ever wonder what secondhand smoke is and what it means for your health? Here are some key points to remember about secondhand smoke:
- Secondhand smoke (also called environmental tobacco smoke, involuntary smoke, and passive smoke) is the smoke given off by a burning tobacco product and the smoke exhaled by a smoker.
- At least 69 chemicals in secondhand smoke are known to cause cancer.
- Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmokers.
- Secondhand smoke has also been associated with heart disease in adults and sudden infant death syndrome, ear infections, and asthma attacks in children.
- There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
To read further information about secondhand smoke, please visit http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS.
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