Second Hand Smoking: Medical or Physiological Effects

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Tarun Gupta asked: Secondhand smoke is a combination of the smoke produced from a burning cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. Second-hand smoke is also known as passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Mostly the term second-hand smoke is used as opposed to ETS because the latter ...

Health Risks of Passive Cigarette Smoking

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Alan B. Densky, CH asked: Most people know that smoking is dangerous, yet despite knowing about the dangerous effects of smoking on their personal health, many smokers never quit. They rationalize their habit by thinking that they are only hurting themselves when they smoke. However, smoking also affects the health ...

Creating a Secondhand Smoke-free Home

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

kristine asked: According to the National Cancer Institute, a person does not have to be smoker for him to be harmed by smoking. You can develop health problems simply from breathing in other people's smoke. Secondhand smoke, also called environmental tobacco smoke or ETS, is the combination of smoke ...

Why Do We Smoke?

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Mike Durand asked: Cigarette manufactures have been required to put warnings on all their packages of cigarettes to tell us that cigarette smoking is dangerous to our health so why do we still smoke. According to United States studies, cigarette smoking is responsible for one out of every five ...