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You don’t have to use tobacco for it to hurt you. Just being around smoke can be deadly.
Here are a few ways that secondhand smoke impacts your health. Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death in the US, killing more than 50,000 people every year. The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that there is NO safe level of secondhand smoke, a deadly combination of more than 4,000 chemicals including more than 50 known to cause cancer.
Any exposure to smoke begins to have a negative effect on the body. After only 7 minutes exposure, your aorta, your heart’s main artery, stiffens and constricts, making your heart work harder and raising your blood pressure.
In 30 short minutes of exposure, the lining of your lungs is beginning to be damaged, and your blood platelets, the life-saving component that stops cuts from bleeding, begin to stick together, slowing blood flow and increasing the risk of a clot, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke.
After two hours of exposure, the time it takes to watch your favorite movie, your blood vessels constrict enough to disturb your heart’s rhythm. And this damage continues every day that you are exposed to secondhand smoke. There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
2nd Hand Smoke Facts: Printer Friendly Version
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