The consequences of passive smoking

At home and in the bar are the most common places non-smokers get exposed to the smoke of smokers. The degree of health damage you suffer from passive smoking depends on several factors like how long you are exposed to the smoke, the distance between you and the smoker and how many smokers there are in the vicinity. But there is no safe exposure threshold unfortunately. So what happens when you are smoking passively?

• After half an hour your arteries start to contract. This impedes the flow of blood.
• Passive smoking can lead to acute head aches and sometimes (temporary) loss of taste and smell.
• The smoke can irritate the eyes.
• People with asthma or the lung condition COPD will get more and more severe symptoms of their disease.
• For a non-smokers who lives with a smoking partner, the chance of developing lung cancer increases 20 to 30 percent.
• Passive smoking increases the chance of dying from cardiovascular disease up to 30 percent.
• Women who smoke passively have more chance of getting abnormal cells in the uterus, which can lead to cancer of the cervix of the uterus.

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