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Passive smoking implies inhaling the tobacco smoke of some other person who might be using cigarettes, cigars, pipes and other sources.... It is said that the increase in the number of cigarettes smoked daily and the number of years of smoking, particularly when it has started at an early age leads to the increase in the risk factors and diseases related to smoking.... It causes many health related problems – like, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or cot disease), middle ear disease, asthma, respiratory illness, lung cancer and coronary heart disease (Better Health Channel, 2011)....
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This research paper dwells upon the environmental tobacco smoke Exposure or Secondhand Smoke.... The exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or secondhand smoke is the third leading preventable cause of illness and death in United States.... The paper aims to evaluate and present consequences of environmental tobacco smoke such as health effects of ETS in young children; ETS and respiratory illnesses; ETS and asthma; smoking effects on placenta and placental transfer of nicotine and carbon monoxide; secondhand nicotine exposure and effects on brain functioning and fetal growth retardation and low birth weight....
9 Pages
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Research Paper
It gives significant evidence that smoking is directly related to the disease.... A research done by Wannamethee et al shows that cigarette smoking is directly related to diabetes even if the confounders are adjusted.... A question has been raised, as a society, what can we do to prevent tobacco from raging death on so many people?... The dilemma of tobacco is mainly focused on minority groups, such as women and African Americans....
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(1000 words)
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The dependence on smoking by children is mainly related to the time they spend as a regular smoker.... Of concern especially is smoking among adolescents which can contribute to several health problems and birth defects in babies born to pregnant women who smoke.... Girls were more likely to smoke from a packet (NHS, 2007).... Those who have smoked for more than a year as regular smokers have reported that they find it difficult to not smoke each day....
11 Pages
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environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in Home Environments, Health Canada, 1996].... Studying deaths from all causes in nonsmokers living with smoking spouses, an elevated mortality risk that was not only greater than that of persons who were not exposed to tobacco smoke, but slightly exceeded the mortality risk of smokers who consumed up to nine cigarettes a day.... What we do know is that the best chance for a healthy baby and healthy mother is a pregnancy where both are not exposed to any tobacco smoke....
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(3000 words)
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In addition to tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide, tobacco smoke contains numerous different chemicals.... Nonsmokers who are vulnerable to tobacco smoke also take in these poisonous chemicals.... Cigarette smoking is the inhale of the smoke of burning tobacco encased.... Nicotine, the vigorous element in tobacco, is intake into the lungs, where most of it remains.... he conditions and the amount of tobacco inhaled, nicotine can act as either refreshment or sedative....
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Of these 35% adult users, 21 % use only smokeless tobacco, 9% only smoke and 5% smoke as well as use smokeless tobacco.... million deaths worldwide are occurring every year and these deaths are directly attributable to tobacco use.... If this trend is not abetted, then by As tobacco consumption becomes a global concern, countries around the globe face the rising concerns attributable to tobacco use.... The Global Adult tobacco Survey (GATS India,2010) is a mechanism that has been developed to track tobacco prevalence, exposure to second hand smoking, exposure to tobacco advertising /promotion, cessation, knowledge and attitudes; that are critical for tobacco control program, policies and evaluation....
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Smoking in youngsters contributes to adult smoking and various health-related problems.... In adolescent women, smoking is associated with pregnancy-related problems.... Of concern especially is smoking among adolescents which can contribute to several health problems and birth defects in babies born to pregnant women who smoke.... Girls were more likely to smoke from a packet (NHS, 2007)....
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