The Health Hazards Associated With Passive Smoking
Author: Brian Welsch
If you wish to smoke cigarettes or cigars despite the associated health risks then that is your own personal choice. What you do not have the right to do is force other people to inhale the smoke from the tobacco products you choose to use, which is why their use in public places is strictly prohibited in many industrialized countries including the United States. Despite an awareness of the reasons behind these public restrictions a shocking number of parents who smoke still choose to light up in the presence of their children without regard for their health. This fact is astounding given that there is scientific research which proves that passive smoking can lead to numerous diseases and is the third leading cause of preventable death in children here in the United States.
Various Diseases And Ailments
Every time you light up a cigar or cigarette in the presence of someone else you are putting them at increased risk of cancer, Crohn's disease and respiratory diseases such as asthma or bronchitis. You are also making it more likely that the people who are passively smoking because of your tobacco product will develop cardiovascular ailments as well as increasing their chances of getting nose, throat and ear infections. Passive smoking is particularly dangerous for children who may not be aware of the dangers they face when they breathe in second hand smoke. Perhaps the most disturbing fact about passive smoking is that it increases the chance of a young child dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Unfortunately these warnings about passive smoking are not simply the hysterical paranoia of politically correct people who want to control the world and everything in it. The dangers of passive smoking are real and there is clinical research to prove them. Therefore if you are a smoker it would be erroneous on your behalf to dismiss the hazards of passive smoking and continue to smoke in the presence of your children, relatives or anybody else.
What You Can Do
If you are worried about harming the health of your loved ones through passive smoking then you have two options. The most sensible decision you can make is to stop smoking altogether. This would improve your health as well as that of those you love and would also put more cash in your pocket. If you are not yet ready to give up smoking then the least you can do is go into your back yard or another outdoor place when you smoke. If you really must have a cigarette then be responsible about it. Have a cigar or cigarette only in an environment where other people are not going to have to breathe in your smoke.
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If you wish to smoke cigarettes or cigars despite the associated health risks then that is your own personal choice. What you do not have the right to do is force other people to inhale the smoke from the tobacco products you choose to use.
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Why do so many people suffer health problems or death AFTER giving up smoking?
I know of 5 stories off hand about people who have smoked for years the given up…It’s only once theyv’e given up their body packs up…Why IS this…and if it’s because of a shock to their system WHY was continuing to smoke such a bad thing?
Then why not WHEN they were smoking?
Smoking does damage at the time you smoke it just may take a while to show the problems. A common misunderstood fact that people have is the longer you smoke the more likely you are to get a cancerous tumor, tumors do not pop up over night the truth is it can take years for the tumor to develop long after you have quit smoking or still are smoking you are doing damage to your self now and that can have long term affects.
My mother damaged her ankle when she was a teen and it took until she was in her 40′s to show the affects and had to have an ankle replacement our bodies do not always show affects right away fact is it takes a while for our body to begin breaking down to grow lumps and all sorts of things, you cant grow hair in one day it may take a year or more to get it too a good length your bodies working on things that takes time and so are those bad chemicals left over from smoking they’re slowly eating away at your insides
Republicans claim to oppose abortion but they do not opposing smoking and big tobacco?
See Yahoo! story about 100,000 second hand smoke deaths in China. My mother in law died from second hand smoke because her husband smoked, she did not smoke. Don’t tell me that it doesn’t happen. How can the religious right close their eyes to Republican corruption, support of the tobacco business, thousands of deaths for the freedom of Iraq which has laws to execute any Moslim that converts to Christianity?
I think Christians should try to be more Christ like than to be political, hateful and divisive. Polictics is the opposite of Christianity. Division and hatred vs. love of Christ and each other.
Abortion is just a vote getting issue for the republican party. Right wingers get abortions almost as much as left wingers, they just don’t like to tell you about their dirty little secret. As an example, Giuliani supposedly has donated to Planned parent hood three times in the last 10 years, but when you look at the amount he donated, it appears that he paid for three different abortions.
The tobacco issue revolves around the fact that the tobacco industry donates allot of money to the republican’s campaign funds.
any tragic , sad stories of death?
My heart goes out to kayne west on the senseless death of his mother at such a young age. I know all too well what he is going through. My mother died very suddenly at age 64 years old on jan 29, 2006 and just 5 days later, my 2nd child.. a son was born. She was in and out of the hospital for months..test after test confirmed nothing…she was having pains in her stomach…then a week after she was released from a hospital stay again…she was having serious pains in the stomach and constanly going #2 to the point she was doubled over…we called 911 and she went into emergency surgery only to find out her colon was infected and needed to be removed…she could not handle the surgery well cause of all the smoke in her lungs(she smoked a pack a day).she quit 2 months before this…she came out of surgery a vegetable then died 12 hours later. anybody else have tragic unsenseless death stories of a loved one?
I am so sorry to hear of your loss! I hope your son’s birth helped to ease the pain a little, although I know it probably hurt a lot that your mother never met him.
My uncle died at the age of 41 on 8/19/04 from metastatic throat and lung cancer. He was not a smoker but his wife was a very heavy smoker. It was so senseless. He spent 18 months going from one pointless lab result to another failed treatment and never went into remission. He was in so much pain, and so weak, that he opted to go by assisted suicide. My mom and her sisters and my daughter were all by his side when he passed. It was heartbreaking and he left 4 young kids fatherless and basically motherless since the mom is a total mess. The mother remarried an abusive loser..if I ever get a hold of that guy I will break every bone in his body if he lays a finger on my cousins again.
Last year on 9/29/06 my son was born (very unexpected pregnancy!) and looked so much like my uncle (he still does!) and even acts like him and has traits that really remind me of him. It is almost like my uncle come back. Sometimes I really have to wonder about that. He helped to heal that hole in my heart a lot and keeps my mom busy as well. She cannot get over the resemblance between my son and her brother.
Does any one have a true story of sudden infant death, miscarriage, or stillbirth from smoking cigarettes?
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My best friend from college smoked her entire pregnancy. Baby was born with breathing problems. They thought they had it under control with breathing treatments, but at 10 weeks old, they found her dead in her crib. Died of SIDS.
Do you know of anyone who died of lung cancer or other smoking-related causes?
I am writing a speech on something to change. I would like to change the act of smoking. I would like to completely eliminate it from the world. I would like to open with a heartwrenching story of someone who died of from it. If you were affected by smoking please tell me your story. Please include names.first names would be fine. Please tell me how their death affected the people around that person. Thanks!
To lose someone you love and care for is hard on the bereaved family. My elder brother died of lung cancer that had metastasized to the brain. The cancer was so aggressive and everything happened so fast! Bertie was 47 years old and had been smoking since he was in his twenties. To this day I still miss him but I am consoled by the fact that I have many good and happy memories of our time together.
We always knew that genetically speaking, our family has a predisposition to cancer. Our grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins on the maternal and paternal side died of different types of cancer, some as young as the early 20′s.
Bertie was not only a brother to me but also a mentor who taught me many things. He left 5 kids, the youngest barely 5 years old when he passed away. Our youngest brother, Leo, is a medical doctor and his wife, Dottie, is a surgeon. They were able to help us cope with Bertie’s imminent death and to let us know what to expect in the coming days. From the time he was diagnosed, Bertie had only 1 1/2 months before he finally died. The last two weeks were spent in the hospital. It was a shock for everyone, our relatives, friends and his work colleagues.
What is very touching and heartwarming is that we were still able to spend Christmas and New Year with him. My siblings and I made it a point to devote our time to him, show him we loved him and make him aware that we were committed to ensuring that the family he will be leaving behind will be well looked after.
Today, everyone in the clan reminds each family member that life is precious and to stay away from carcinogenic stuff, most specially starting the smoking habit.
I hope that the younger generation not only in my clan but everyone else will stay away from smoking. It surely kills over time.
Only this month, my doctor brother informed us that another elder sister, Cristina, is a possible victim. She is 57 years old. So its deja vu again!
I am not a smoker, never started the habit at all. My husband Manny, quit smoking at 40 years old. He is now 62. Our 3 sons Reuben, Patrick and Francis are thankfully non-smokers.
Before you start the habit, or light your next cigarette, I hope that people will think twice. By the time you realize that life is worth living and you still want to be surrounded by your loved ones, it would be too late.