Tobacco or cigarette smoking affects millions of Americans. But the Centers for Disease control and Prevention on Sept 7 issued a report in its weekly journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report or MMWR saying that secondhand smoking or passive smoking was on the decline.
The CDC says that the number of people who were affected by passive smoking defined as having serum nicotine levels equal to or greater than 0.05 ng/mL during 1999 to 2000 was 40.1 percent compared to 52.5 percent during 2007 to 2008.
Secondhand cigarette smoke also known as environmental tobacco smoke consists of at least 250 toxic chemicals including more than 50 carcinogens or cancer-causing agents.
Earlier the CDC reported that passive smoking affects an estimated 126 million nonsmokers in homes, vehicles, workplaces and public areas in the United States.
Passive cigarette smoking has been linked to a whole spectrum of serious diseases including tuberculosis, cardiovascular disease, pancreatic cancer, diabetes mellitus, respiratory infections, kidney disease, acute stroke, acute heart attack or myocardial infarction, and atherosclerosis.
Read more:
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Lifestyle/passive_smoking_0809100531.html
Read more:
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Lifestyle/passive_smoking_0809100531.html
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