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Secondhand Smoke

HE A LTH EDUC A TION H E A L T H 1 0 0 V E R S I O N 3 / Myths about Smoking and Cigarettes

"Secondhand smoke may bother people, but it is not harmless. Tens of thousands of nonsmokers die every year from breathing others’ secondhand smoke. Breathing the chemicals in tobacco smoke changes your blood’s chemistry almost immediately. Deadly clots can form and block arteries to your heart or brain. When you smoke at work, home, or at a restaurant, everyone there breathes poisons. If you smoke in your car, rolling down a window does not protect your passengers. It is not healthy to breathe any amount of tobacco smoke. Do not smoke or let others smoke around your children. They can get bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections from smoke. Even if you only smoke by an open window, some of the smoke stays in your house and poisons the air your children breathe. Children with asthma can have a serious, even deadly, asthma attack from breathing secondhand smoke. The best way to protect children is to quit smoking. If you or someone else in your household are not ready to quit, make your home and car 100% smoke-free."

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