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Passive smoking - or second hand smoking - is the involuntary action of inhaling surrounding smoke. This pertains mainly to nonsmokers who are present in the company of smokers, and therefore are not actively smoking but breathing the smoky surrounding air.
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∙ 12y agoThe people who have to be in the same airspace as smokers and who are therefor passively subjected to the filthy smoke that is in the air.
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Are at as great of a risk as smokers for respiratory and circulatory diseases?
passive smokers
What are active and passive smokers?
Active is actually smoking. Passive is standing near active, and breathing in their smoke, indirectly.
What are the risks for nonsmokers?
There are high risks of cancer for passive smokers as well.
What does passive smokers mean?
Mostly garbage - it refers to non-smokers who breath the exhaled air of smokers. It may be detrimental to some people, but how much is highly variable.
What is active and passive smoking?
Active smoking is when you smoke your self. Passive smoking is that you are not a smoker, but you inhale the smoke in a closed room, office pubs and other places from the smoke from other smokers
Why do people worry about passive smoking?
People do not normally choose to become passive smokers. People become passive smokers because they have to sit, eat, or live next to someone who smokes. When a non smoker is forced to breathe smoke, the non smoker becomes a passive smoker.
Difference between active and passive smoking?
Active smoking is the direct inhalation of smoke by an intended smoker while passive smoking is second hand smoking. This is a situation where smoke is inhaled (from the environment) by non intended smokers. Active and passive smoking are both harmful to the body.
If you kiss someone who smokes will you get what they will get e.g lung cancer?
You will not get smoker related sicknesses through kissing - however passive smoking has been proven to be a danger to non smokers.
What kind of friends do people who smoke have?
To some extent smokers will tend to socialize with other smokers, but the social segregation of smokers from non-smokers is not that strict; in reality, smokers can have the same range of friends that non-smokers have.
When was The Smokers created?
The Smokers was created in 2000.
What is the duration of The Smokers?
The duration of The Smokers is 1.6 hours.
Are there more smokers than non-smokers?
NNo
