Passive Smoking ...

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TOBACCO & ALCOHOL

BE ACTIVE

EAT RIGHT

Passive Smoking Healthy Habits , Healthy Life , Healthy India

Exposure to environmental Smoking during

tobacco smoke (ETS) is also pregnancy can lead to:
known as passive smoking. . Still birth
It comprises smoke from both . Low birth weight babies
the burning end of a cigarette
(‘Side Stream’ smoke) and
. Poor academic performance in school
the smoke exhaled by a
smoker.

Passive smoking is especially

dangerous for babies and children

Effects of Passive
Smoking on health
. Increased risk of cancer Nearly 700 million or almost
and heart attack among
spouses of smokers. half of the world's children,
. Worsening of breathing breathe air polluted
problems
by tobacco
. Irritation of the eyes, nose smoke, particularly at home.
and throat.

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