Secondhand Smoke—a Silent Killer
November 14th, 2007
nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Chances are you wouldn’t eat rat poison or drink nail polish remover. So, why subject yourself to secondhand smoke, which contains more than 4,000 chemicals, including arsenic (found in rat poison), acetone (an ingredient in nail polish remover) and formaldehyde (used to embalm bodies)?
Secondhand smoke is the smoke given off by the burning end of cigarettes, pipes or cigars and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers that can then be involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers. The reality is that although you may never pick up a cigarette in your lifetime, you can still develop life-threatening diseases simply by exposure to secondhand smoke.
Secondhand smoke is responsible for more than 38,000 lung cancer and heart disease deaths among adult nonsmokers in the United States.
There are no safe levels of exposure, but you can take steps to clear the secondhand smoke from your life. Start by declaring your car and home [...]
Read the rest of this great post here
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