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8 Passive Smoking Harm caused

by passive smoking
Health effects on adults
HAIR Harm caused
“An hour a day in a room with a smoker is
nearly a hundred times more likely to • Smell by passive smoking
cause lung cancer in a non-smoker than Health effects on children
20 years spent in a building containing BRAIN AND
asbestos.” Sir Richard Doll, 1985 MENTAL EFFECTS
nly" HAIR
use o • Strokes
internal • Smell
The first conclusive evidence on "For  


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the danger of passive smoking BRAIN
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     • Possible association with brain tumours
   
came from Takeshi Hirayama’s
   
and long-term mental effects
study in 1981 on lung cancer in NOSE
non-smoking Japanese women 
• Irritation

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married to men who smoked.   
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Although the tobacco industry Tobac
co In the U
S • Lung cancer
stitu EARS
immediately launched a multi- te • Worsening of pre-existing

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million dollar campaign to $  $
 chest problems, such as
(chronic otitis media)

discredit the evidence, dozens of   $  
 
asthma, chronic obstructive
 

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pulmonary disease
RESPIRATION AND LUNGS
further studies have confirmed
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 and emphysema
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• Respiratory infections
the link. Research then broadened    (including bronchitis and
  HEART
into other areas and new scientific &
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     pneumonia)
 • Harms, clogs weakens arteries
evidence continues to accumulate. &

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 • Heart attack, angina
• Asthma induction
A complex mixture of chemicals   
  
  and exacerbation
  
• Chronic respiratory symptoms
is generated from the burning and
    UTERUS
(wheezing, cough, breathlessness)
  • Low birthweight or
smoking of tobacco. As a passive '
 small for gestational age
• Decreased lung function
( 
smoker, the non-smoker breathes )
• Cot death or Sudden Infant
 !*+ Death Syndrome (SIDS)
HEART
“sidestream” smoke from the • Deleterious effects on oxygen,
burning tip of the cigarette and after birth
arteries
“mainstream” smoke that has been • Increased nicotine receptors
BURNS
inhaled and then exhaled by the • From fires caused by tobacco
BLOOD
smoker. • Possible association
The risk of lung cancer in non- with lymphoma
smokers exposed to passive Children exposed to passive smoking at home
smoking is increased by between BURNS
selected countries • From fires caused by tobacco
20 and 30 percent, and the excess 2001 or latest available data
risk of heart disease is 23 percent. 69% 68% 7% percentages ROLE MODEL
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Children are at particular risk 63% • Greater likelihood of becoming
Numbers affected by passive smoking a smoker as a teenager
from adults’ smoking. Adverse 57% 5%
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health effects include pneumonia 53% in the USA
49% % annual 1990s
and bronchitis, coughing and 46% 45.5
wheezing, worsening of asthma, Lung cancer 3,000
middle ear disease, and possibly 34% 34% Ischaemic heart disease 35,000 to 62,000
neuro-behavioural impairment 31% 9%
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Infants and children
Russian Federation

and cardiovascular disease in

adulthood. Low birthweight 9,700 to 18,600
A pregnant woman’s exposure
Argentina

Cot death (SIDS) 1,900 to 2,700

Indonesia

Ukraine

Mexico

Nigeria

Bronchitis or pneumonia in infants 150,000 to 300,000

Bolivia

to other people’s smoking can

Poland

China
Cuba

Chile

India

Haiti

Peru

harm her foetus. The effects are

Respiratory effects in children
compounded when the child is Middle ear infection 700,000 to 1,600,000
exposed to passive smoking Asthma induction (new cases) 8,000 to 26,000
after birth. Asthma exacerbation 400,000 to 1,000,000

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