Passive Smoking – As dangerous as Smoking

Passive smoking is the inhalation of smoke and it is known as secondhand smoke (SHS) or Environment tobacco smoke (ETS) from the tobacco products consumed or used by others. Passive smoking is considered as more dangerous than the active smoking. Active smoking refers to the person who is smoking and passive smoking refers to the smoke which is consumed by the smoker and inhaled with air by the person who is around the smoker. The scientific evidence has shown that passive smoking causes disease, disability and death. Passive smokers are considered to have more risk on their health than the active smokers.

We are just aware that smoking is injurious to health, but we should know that if we do not smoke we can be pulled towards death due to second hand or passive smoking. Passive smoking causes headache, heart strokes, asthma attacks, disability, cancer and sometimes death. Due to passive smoking your heart starts beating faster and also your blood pressure rises high. Children are the most delicate and they suffer the most due to passive smoking. Usually the parents are unaware of the passive smoking effects and disadvantages, & they smoke in front of infants or kids. They do not realize till the children catches any severe disease or lung problems. Children are the first and quick victims of passive smoking and hence children should be kept away from the smokers.

If you visit any restaurant, hotels, offices, lifts, theatres, or even malls; you will clearly read the message ‘No smoking’. This message clearly states that smoking here can cause problem to people around you which is known as passive smoking. Passive smoking is very dangerous to our health. People who live with smokers most of the time are predicted to have lung cancer in the later age. Please stop your friends, family members and colleagues from smoking because if offends your life span too. Smoking and passive smoking are equally dangerous. Care for your life and of your loved ones, keeping this in mind quit smoking as soon as possible.

Passive smoking has affected many lives till now and therefore many countries including US have banned or restricted smoking in the public places. Believe or not smoking is very dangerous, and so the passive smoking. Do not kill yours and your loved ones life with smoking habits. It snatches away your stamina, youth and longevity from you,. Quit smoking!