| Today the majority have heard the statement' | | | | just on particular organs, but on various ethnicity, types |
| secondhand smoke kills.' But in society's accelerating | | | | of workers, and socioeconomic classifications. |
| appreciation of the health dangers of tobacco, of the | | | | A Surgeon General has confirmed the known health |
| lies made by the tobacco industry, and of an emergent | | | | effects of secondhand exposure, including immediate |
| body of law supporting smokefree policies, it is not | | | | adversary effects on the cardio system, and coronary |
| enough to simply state 'secondhand smoke kills' | | | | heart illness and lung cancer. The report concluded that |
| without understanding how it is a health danger, whom | | | | there's no safe level of exposure to secondhand |
| it is affecting, where exposure is the most major, and | | | | smoke and that creating smokefree environments is |
| what can be done to stop it. | | | | the sole proven way to prevent exposure. The report |
| Across the years, the science of 'lingering smoker's | | | | also unearths that millions of northern Americans are |
| smoke' has driven the secondhand policy engine from | | | | still exposed to secondhand smoke in spite of |
| separate smoking and nonsmoking sections to | | | | important progress in tobacco control. |
| separately ventilated smoking rooms to 100% | | | | As the body of scientific proof becomes bigger and |
| smokefree environments. We now know that 53,800 | | | | more reliable, it is now simple to prove that smokefree |
| folk die every year from secondhand smoke | | | | policies not only work to guard nonsmokers from the |
| exposure. This number is based on the midpoint | | | | death and disease caused by exposure to |
| numbers for coronary disease deaths ( 48,500 ), lung | | | | secondhand smoke, but also have a fast effect on the |
| cancer deaths ( 3,000 ), and SIDS deaths ( 2,300 ) as | | | | general public's health. On a bigger scale, a study has |
| worked out in the 1997 California EPA Report on | | | | confirmed that restaurants and bars located in |
| Secondhand Smoke. And kids are at major risk to | | | | smokefree cities have 82% less indoor air pollution |
| many acute and chronic illnesses as a result of this | | | | than restaurants and bars in towns that don't have |
| exposure. | | | | smokefree protection. Thanks to the mountain of |
| In 2007, a study using magnetic resonance imaging ( | | | | proof from these peer-reviewed, scientific studies, the |
| MRI ) technology was able to see damage in the lungs | | | | Centers for disease Control lately issued a warning for |
| of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand | | | | anybody at risk for coronary disease to avoid |
| smoke.secondhand smoke could cause illness in | | | | smoke-filled indoor environments completely. |
| nonsmokers, hundreds of studies have concluded not | | | | Secondhand smoke kills. Knowing the science behind it, |
| only this, but that exposure to secondhand may end up | | | | as well as how smokefree policies protect the general |
| in death. Over the last 20 years, systematic research | | | | public from this inconsideration for others, will help |
| has become even more clear, ensuing now in the | | | | cement this in the minds of the public. |
| facility to identify the effect of the smoker's trail not | | | | |