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Indoor Pollution
Are You Smoking? You may not know it but you are, not necessarily doing the act but suffering from others doing so. What's it called? Second Hand Smoking also known as Environmental Tobacco Smoke.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke is a combination of the of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs, and has many different side affects.
ETS can cause lung cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, stroke and respiratory disease.
And here's a quick Fact: For every 8 smokers tobacco smoke kills, 1 nonsmoker is killed by inhalation of second hand smoke.
So how is ETS affecting our environment?
Two thirds of the smoke from a cigarette that is not inhaled by a smoker goes into the surrounding air carrying 4,000 different chemicals, more than 50 of which are known as "Class A carcinogens" Class A is considered the most dangerous of cancer agents and there is no known safe level of exposure.
Second-hand smoke is a major source of indoor air pollution, and the greatest source of air particle pollution
Quick Fact: Tobacco is the only legal consumer product that is LETHAL when used exactly as the manufacturer intends.
Many of the harmful products in smoke are in the form of gas. Therefore,
environmental tobacco smoke cannot be entirely filtered out through the
ventilation systems or special fans. The ventilation systems in many office
buildings actually spread smoke into rooms where no one has been smoking. It
can take hours for the smoke of a cigarette to clear.
There is only one way to eliminate second-hand smoke from indoor air:
Remove the source.
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