Most often, we listen on TV channels and from many other sources that smoking cancers and smokers are very much exposed to deadly cancer disease as compared to non-smokers. Of course that’s a truth but what this article illustrates is another major fact and that is Second Hand Smoking (SHS) and its deadly cancerous effects. A smoker not only affects himself but also the people around him by the smoke he exhales (called mainstream smoke) and the smoke coming out from the end of cigarette (called sidestream smoke).
A non-smoker walking in the street may consider the cigarette smoke pretty harmless but to tell the fact it’s absolutely not! Arsenic, Ammonia, Hydrogen Cyanide and many other carcinogens are residing inside that harmless looking smoke.
A smoker passing by you or sitting with you contaminates the air with these filthy and deadly elements. So your turn of inhaling these carcinogens starts by the time he ends exhaling those. So SHS is just like doing something illegal or dangerous un-intentionally. Why should you be the victim of the bad results of the act you never did? Well, that’s indeed a point of worry…
International Agency for Research on smoking cancers concluded a study in 2004 and according to the study there are 4,000 chemicals present in sidestream smoke, including 69 known carcinogens. Very much same is the case for mainstream smoke while the concentration of the elements varies depending on type of the smoke.
Poly Nuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon, Aromatic Amines and tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines are some highly carcinogenic elements present in the smoke. A smoker inhales them directly and then leaves the air dirty for you to inhale. So think before you join Smokers Company as we all know prevention is the best cure available.
If you are a smoker, it’s best to quit smoking so you don’t cause cancers from secondhand smoke, but if you cannot quit at this time, here are a few tips to prevent secondhand smoke from affecting other people. First off, always take your smoke breaks in open air, not in the car or in home. Moreover, find a suitable smoking corner outside where there is no public around.
Remember, a smoker fears not even a little bit from the smoke as he himself is allowing it to destroy his precious internal body. So responsibility lies on your shoulders, just make them understand the harmful effects of second hand smoking in public and play your part in smoking cancer free nourishment of our society. That may also help the smoker understand the harmful results of smoking!
So act now and make a difference! Now you fully know that smoking cancers and if you are not stopping a smoker from smoking in the presence of others, you are making a mistake and remember this mistake can destroy many including you. We do not want cancer and we will not let it destroy our public! Advice smokers before its too late…..!
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