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Zero. Second-hand smoking is just a myth created by lawyers and anti-corporate/smoking people as an excuse to tie the cases of individuals with lung cancer who spend large amounts of time in the vicinity of smokers.

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How many people are killed by second hand smoke?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), secondhand smoke causes approximately 41,000 deaths from heart disease and 7,300 deaths from lung cancer in non-smoking adults each year in the United States. This highlights the serious health risks associated with exposure to secondhand smoke.


How many deaths are from second hand smoke?

None, because second hand smoke cannot kill you whatsoever. The amount of smoke that you'd have to be exposed to would be an extraordinary amount.


2nd hand smoke kills how many people a year?

Secondhand smoke causes almost 50,000 deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States each year, including approximately 3,400 from lung cancer and 22,700-69,600 from heart disease


Can you get lung cancer from second hand smoke?

NoYes, indeed you can. You can also get it from other environmental factors, and it can be hereditary. There are many people who get lung cancer now for what seems to be no understandable reason at all.


How many yearly second hand smoking deaths?

If the intent of the question is how many individual persons have been determined to have died as a cause of exposure to second hand smoke, the answer is none.


How many people die each day from second hand smoking?

Second hand smoking contributes to nearly 50,000 deaths annually. This exceeds the number of deaths attributed to AIDS and drug use.


How manny people die from tobacco each year?

Tobacco products cause more deaths annually in the US than deaths from car accidents, drug & alcohol abuse, HIV, suicides and murders combined. 443,000 preventable deaths according to the Center for Disease Control in statistics taken from the years 2000 to 2004. This figure includes deaths from second hand smoke (49,400) That equals 1 out of 5 deaths. See CDC link below for more info.


Does smoking or secondhand smoke kill more?

second hand smoke cause more deaths. smoking really isn't that dangerous, it is just easier to blame many things, like lung cancer, on one thing.


What are the two types of tobacco smoke?

first hand smoke and second hand smoke


What are the type of smokes?

first hand smoke and second hand smoke


What are the types of smoking tobacco?

first hand smoke and second hand smoke


What is another name for second hand smoke?

Another name for second hand smoke is passive smoke.