According to American Cancer Society, second hand smoke is responsible for an estimated 35000 death each year from heart disease in non-smokers who live with smokers. Second hand smoke can be just as hazardous as mainstream smoke. That means each year, 35000 non-smokers are murdered by smokers and there’s no justice served for the death of any one of them.
The act of smoking a cigarette does not start and end by the inhaling and the exhaling. Half of the smokes are dispersed in the air, within the space occupied by the smoker. Passive smoking does not discriminate. Children, elderly, Black, White, Asian, Brown, it does not care. If you are in the proximity of the smoke, you will inhale almost everything the smoker is inhaling. Second hand smoke deliver over 50 different carcinogens, the cancer causing agent.
Children who are subjected to second hand smoke are likely to develop asthma, have weak immune system, and become smokers themselves. A large percentage of children who develop respiratory ailments have parents that smoke. Children of smokers who spent eight hours a day in a room where someone sometimes smoked were eight times more likely to die. Parents really don’t have a way to smoke and not affect their children in a negative manner. If you think you are keeping your children safe by smoking outside or smoking indoors only when they are not around. Think again and read this article on “Third Hand Smoke”.
I’m a believer in that no decent person wishes to do harm onto others without probable-cause. I also believe that is the lack of knowledge and the psyche being weakened by nicotine addiction, that force smokers to be insensible to the harm they do in the form of second hand smoke. Unfortunately none of those reasoning make any difference as to the outcome of being subjected to second smoke. Being subjected to second hand smoke from a nice person is just as bad as second hand smoke from anyone. As human beings, we are born with certain rights and one of them I believe should be the freedom to experience different things with our body as we’d like. We shouldn’t need anyone’s permission to experiment with our body, but then you should also accept the responsibility of not harming others as in the process of practicing those rights.
Let me make this very clear to you, Second Hand Smoking Kill innocent people. Imagine yourself being involved in a plot to mass-murder random innocent people and ask yourself if you can continue with your smoking habit. Continue with “How To Quit Smoking”.