It’s Official: Secondhand Smoke Kills
Though common wisdom has long held that secondhand smoke is dangerous, the US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona today announced that a new comprehensive study on what he’s termed “involuntary smoking” indicates that there is no safe level of secondhand smoke and that it wreaks devastating health consequences on all those exposed to it. The number of lung cancer cases caused by secondhand smoke is rather alarming: A 2005 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 3,000 people died every year in the United States from lung cancer caused by secondhand smoke. Furthermore at least 60 percent of nonsmokers in the United States have evidence of exposure to secondhand smoke in their blood.
“This report once and for all ends any scientific debate about whether exposure to secondhand smoke is a cause of serious diseases like lung cancer and heart disease,” said Matthew Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
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