What is second hand smoke?

Answer 1

It is the smoke given off by someone smoking that is taken up by someone else.

Example: you are next to someone smoking a cigarette and you inhale the smoke they breathe out (it's really unhealthy). Nothing is good about secondhand smoke.

Answer 2

Secondhand smoking (or second hand smoke) is a combination of the smoke that is released from the end of a burning cigarette and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. Over 4,000 chemicals are found in a single puff of smoke, including more than 50 cancer causing particles. Second hand smoke can cause lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. In addition to cancer, SHS can cause eye irritation, headaches, nausea, and dizziness (in non-smokers). It is also known as passive smoke or side stream smoke and is behind the massive smoking bans across the world on smoking in piblic places.

Second hand smoke has been scientifically shown to cause cancer and exacerbate Asthma especially in children. it is responsible even for heart attacks. It has given raise to increased use of electronic cigarettes

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Answer 3

Second hand smoke has been proven to cause cancer and tumors. It is especially unhealthy for children.