Second hand smokers

Mohammed Saoud Mrs. Timm 12 DMarch 10, 2013

Introduction

• Passive smoking effects • Risks on children• Smoking in public does not only harm the

smokers, but it harms the people around the person also.

Effect

• Lung cancer• Allergies• Brain tumor • Ear, nose, and throat infection

Risk on children

• Sudden infant death syndrome • Asthma • Allergies• Learning difficulties, developmental delays,

and neurobehavioral effects.

Risk level

• The International Agency for Research on Cancer researches

• The US Surgeon General– living or working in a place where smoking is

permitted increases the non-smokers' risk of developing heart diseases.

Carbon Monoxide

• second-hand smoke exposure as well as tobacco use

• Carbon monoxide Poisoning– Harms non smokers

Cigarettes content

• Contains over 4000 chemicals • Nicotine • Tar

Pathophysiology

• Definition: The functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury

• Second-hand smoke has been shown to produce more particulate-matter pollution than an idling low-emission diesel engine

• Tobacco smoke exposure has immediate and substantial effects on blood

Public opinion

• Surveys • 80% of respondents agreed that second-hand

smoke was harmful• 95% of adults agreed that second-hand smoke

was harmful to children

Smoke free laws

• smoke-free regulations• Bans smoking in indoors• Smoking banned in certain public places

Effects of the law

• heart attacks dropped 27%• admissions for respiratory conditions declined

by 33%

Animal poisoning

• Animals like dogs, cats, squirrels, and other small animals are affected by not only second-hand smoke inhalation, but also nicotine poisoning– cigarette butts, chewing tobacco, or nicotine gum

within reach of the animal.• Littered cigarette– sidewalks or trashcans

Conclusion

• Smokers harm themselves and people around them

• Carbon monoxide harm on people • smoking in public places

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