PART 1.
HEALTH EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE EXPOSURE
- Inhalation of second-hand smoke causes a wide variety of adverse health effects in infant and children including laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, exacerbation of asthma, middle ear effusion and glue ear.
- Chronic cough and phlegm are more frequent in children whose parents smoke compared with children of nonsmokers.
- Tobacco smoke is an important source of indoor air pollution causing such immediate effects as eye and nasal irritation: sneezing, nasal congestion, nasal discharge or snuffles, headache, sore throat, throatiness, nausea, cough and respiratory problems.
- Heart disease mortality as well as lung and nasal sinus cancer have been causally associated with second-hand smoke exposure.
- Environmental tobacco smoke aggravate the complaints of heart patients and increases the risk of death by heart infarction.
- Non-smoker wives of smoker husbands are more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smoker wives of non-smoker husbands.
- Exposure of non-smoking women to second-hand smoke during pregnancy causes reductions in foetal growth and there is also evidence that postnatal exposure of infants to second-hand smoke contributes to the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
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