Archive for the ‘Secondhand Smoke’ Category
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
On top of suffering from secondhand smoke, research suggests that people who live with smokers may also suffer malnutrition.
After examining data culled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Jeffrey S. Hampl, an Arizona State University assistant nutrition professor, found that spouses of smokers' consumed on average three more grams of ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Many people think that because they don't smoke, they don't have to worry about cigarettes. The truth is that breathing in secondhand smoke, which is a combination of the smoke coming from the burning end of a cigarette or cigar (sidestream smoke) and the smoke that is exhaled by a ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Emma's friend Megan lights up a cigarette every chance she gets — while she's cruising around with their friends on Friday nights, during breaks at the pizza place, before soccer scrimmages, even as she babysits her brother. Emma's worried — both for her friend's health and for her own. She's ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
What Is Secondhand Smoke?
Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or passive smoke, is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke from burning tobacco products:
Sidestream smoke: smoke that comes from the end of a lighted cigarette, pipe, or cigar
Mainstream smoke: smoke that is exhaled by a smoker
When non-smokers ...
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