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Smoking and Your Health
The Danger of Second Hand Smoke
Why is second hand smoke dangerous?

It contains over 4,000 chemicals. Fifty of these are known to cause cancer.

The more you are exposed to second hand smoke, the greater your health risk. If you live or work where there is second hand smoke, your risk is greater.

Workplaces that allow smoking have higher levels of cancer-causing materials in the air.

Non-smokers can inhale as much as two to three cigarettes a day.

It takes three hours to clear the air of the smoke from a single cigarette.

How does second hand smoke harm your health?

Second hand smoke causes heart disease, lung cancer and other cancer...

Posted by: Amy Hetzel

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