Effects of Second Hand Smoking
- Smoking's Impact
on Other
- Smoking affects Everyone
- Smoking affects Children
- Smoking affects Pregnant women
- Your body gets more than nicotine when
you smoke -
The ashes, tar, gases, and other poisons in cigarettes will
harm your body over time. They also make it harder for you to taste and smell
things, and fight infections. They lower down your body immune system, and
damage your heart and lungs.
Smoking Affects Everyone
Smoking generally causes problems
for everyone, regardless of ages.
Damages the eyes (when the thousands of chemicals get into
your bloodstream when you inhale cigarette smoke and it can circulate throughout
your body. The chemicals deal damage to the macula, causing tiny blood vessels
to burst through it and also kill the cells slowly. In the end, it would lead
to loss of vision.
- Reduces fertility.
- Increases likelihood of impotence.
- Contributes to thin bones.
- Affects mental capacity and memory.
- Reduces levels of folate, low levels of which can
increase the risk of heart disease, depression, and Alzheimer's disease.
- Affects ability to smell and taste.
- Increases risk of depression in adolescents.
- Increases risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood
pressure.
- Increases risk of diabetes.
- Increases risk of cancer.
- Causes breathing problems.
- Reduces immune system and get colds and flu more easily.
Smoking
Affects Children
Children have weaker immune system than most adults. As a
result of inhaling smoke from cigarettes, they tend to be affected greater
than others.
- Asthma
- Ear infections (like pneumonia)
- Lung infections (like pneumonia)
- Growth of lungs affected
Smoking Affects Pregnant
Do the new lives get
to choose their own destiny? Can they grow up to be as healthy as others
of their ages?
Nevertheless, they do not have a choice. Is it fair to them that they are
born unhealthier than others just because their mothers are smokers?
- Their babies may
suffer from birth defects (which include mental and physical
disability).
- Their babies may
be born small or low-birth-weight.
- They may have
premature babies.
- Their babies are
more likely to die of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
- Their children may
be cranky, restless, and get sick more often.
- Their children
are more likely to have learning problems.
- Their children
have higher risk of obesity and diabetes later in life.
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