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    Exposure to Secondhand Smoke poses serious health risks. Secondhand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic and carcinogenic. Non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased risk of developing lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses. Exposure to secondhand smoke is especially harmful for children, causing conditions like asthma, SIDS, and impaired lung development. Parents can help protect their children by avoiding smoking indoors, in cars, and around children. National and local resources provide information and assistance to prevent exposure to secondhand smoke and support smoking cessation efforts.

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    Exposure to Secondhand Smoke poses serious health risks. Secondhand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic and carcinogenic. Non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased risk of developing lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses. Exposure to secondhand smoke is especially harmful for children, causing conditions like asthma, SIDS, and impaired lung development. Parents can help protect their children by avoiding smoking indoors, in cars, and around children. National and local resources provide information and assistance to prevent exposure to secondhand smoke and support smoking cessation efforts.

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    Exposure to Secondhand Smoke poses serious health risks. Secondhand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic and carcinogenic. Non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased risk of developing lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses. Exposure to secondhand smoke is especially harmful for children, causing conditions like asthma, SIDS, and impaired lung development. Parents can help protect their children by avoiding smoking indoors, in cars, and around children. National and local resources provide information and assistance to prevent exposure to secondhand smoke and support smoking cessation efforts.

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    Gcu - 434 Health & Safety

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    Exposure to Secondhand Smoke poses serious health risks. Secondhand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic and carcinogenic. Non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased risk of developing lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses. Exposure to secondhand smoke is especially harmful for children, causing conditions like asthma, SIDS, and impaired lung development. Parents can help protect their children by avoiding smoking indoors, in cars, and around children. National and local resources provide information and assistance to prevent exposure to secondhand smoke and support smoking cessation efforts.

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    Exposure to Secondhand Smoke

    Grand Canyon University


    Sammy Levuong
    2019
    Voice over link

    https://www.loom.com/share/a1512aee15bc48578422de41d522059a
    What is secondhand smoke?
    ● Secondhand smoke comes from burning tobacco products. Tobacco products include:
    cigarettes, cigars or loose leaf tobacco smoked in pipes.
    ● Secondhand smoke is also smoke that is being exhaled by someone that is inhaling
    tobacco products.
    ● Tobacco smoke has over 7,000 chemicals, many that are toxic and some are known to
    cause cancer.
    ● Secondhand smoke is as toxic as directly smoking tobacco product.
    Where can you be exposed to it?
    A person can be exposed to secondhand smoke anywhere.

    Places include homes with smokers, riding in a vehicle with a smoker, being in
    public where someone is smoking, work places, restaurants, bars, and casinos.
    Traces of chemicals from the tobacco product can also settle on the clothes of
    smokers and surfaces that they were smoking near. These particles can remain
    there for a long period of time.

    There is no safe amount of time to being exposed to any amount of smoke.


    Some toxins contained in secondhand smoke and their
    effects:
    Secondhand smoke poses a huge health risk for all. From our youngest population to the
    elderly. According to the American Cancer Society there is no safe amount of exposure to
    secondhand smoke. Even just a little bit can affect our health. The toxins contained within
    the smoke that is coming from the lit end of tobacco products and exhale from a smoker is
    harmful. The smoke can contain: formaldehyde, cadmium (toxic metal), and butadiene
    (hazardous gas). Formaldehyde smoke can cause irritated airway, asthmas, chest pain,
    shortness of breath, and cancer. Inhaling large amounts of cadmium can damage kidneys,
    lungs and bones. It can lead to death. Butadiene is a known carcinogen.
    Cancers related to secondhand smoke
    Nonsmokers that are constantly exposed to secondhand smoke can lead to not
    only lung cancer but it has been linked to cancers of the

    ● Larynx (voice box)


    ● Pharynx (throat)
    ● Nasal sinuses
    ● Brain
    ● Bladder
    ● Rectum
    ● Stomach
    ● Breast
    Secondhand smoke leads to other health problems
    Inhaling secondhand smoke causes inflammation. The smoke and toxins can affect the
    heart and blood vessels as well.

    This can increase chances of developing coronary artery diseases, peripheral vascular
    diseases, heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes.
    Secondhand Smoke During Pregnancy
    Smoking during your pregnancy is never advised and is even more harmful for
    your unborn child than secondhand smoke.

    Being exposed to secondhand smoke during your pregnancy can be very harmful
    to your unborn child.

    Some harmful effects of secondhand smoke during pregnancy can be end in:
    Miscarriages
    Stillborns
    Premature births (born prior to being fully developed)
    Low birth weight
    Learning and developmental delays later on
    Reduce fertility
    Poor lung development
    Exposure to secondhand smoke in the 1st year of
    life
    Children exposed to secondhand smoke increases chances of:

    ● Getting sick more often


    ● More prone to ear infections
    ● Develop asthma
    ● Lung infections
    ● Respiratory symptoms (coughing, sneezing, shortness of breath)
    ● SIDS
    ● Poor lung maturity
    Secondhand smoke SIDS and asthma
    An infant being around secondhand smoke can increase the
    possibility of the infant having Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
    (SIDS). SIDS is something that is not entirely understood.

    Secondhand smoke can trigger asthma attacks in children. The


    asthma attacks can also be more severe than normal. Possibly
    requiring trips to the doctors office or emergency room.
    Children of smokers
    Childrens of smokers are more prone to become smokers themselves later
    on in life.

    Children of smokers have poor lung development. Their lungs never fully develop
    and mature or become damaged from inhalation of tobacco smoke.

    Secondhand smoke can also cause early onset of cataracts.


    Parents can help protect their children from second-
    hand smoke by taking the following actions
    a. Do not allow anyone to smoke near you
    b. Move away from people that are smoking
    c. Do not allow anyone to smoke anywhere in your home.
    d. Do not allow anyone to smoke in car, even with the window down.
    e. Make sure children’s schools are tobacco-free.
    f. If your state still allows smoking in public areas, look for restaurants and other places
    that do not allow smoking.
    g. Avoid being in an enclosed space with someone that is smoking.
    National Resource:
    American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation

    It is a foundation that has a list of all the local, state, and federal regulations and
    ordinances on the use of tobacco products. They provide information about the risks
    associated with inhaling secondhand smoke. The information includes not only smoke
    from tobacco products but also from marijuana and vape pens.

    https://no-smoke.org/about-us/
    Community Resources:
    Free Quit Smoking Classes provided by Anaheim Regional Medical Center. This is a local hospital that provides
    classes on smoking cessation and provides free nicotine patches to help. The classes are held on Mondays of each
    month from from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
    1211 W. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92801
    Phone Number 1-866-NEW-LUNG (639-5864)
    http://www.ochealthinfo.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=87797

    OC Health is the Orange County Health Department that provides information on secondhand smoke. It also has
    information on how to prevent and avoid having secondhand smoke from entering your condo or apartment from an
    outside source. They also gives information to apartment complex owners on how they can restrict the use of
    tobacco products in the complex.
    405 W. 5th St., Santa Ana, CA 92701
    (714) 541-1444
    http://www.ochealthinfo.com/phs/about/promo/tupp/housing
    Web-based Resource
    Smoke Free is a website that the government runs. It provides information and help to quit
    smoking. It also provides other information about the harmful effects of secondhand
    smoke and what it does to you and your family.

    https://smokefree.gov/
    References:
    Health Risks of Secondhand Smoke. (2015). Retrieved from
    https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/tobacco-and-cancer/secondhand-smoke.html

    Naeem, Z. (2015). Second-hand smoke – ignored implications. Retrieved from


    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4538886/

    Secondhand Smoke (SHS) Facts. (2018). Retrieved from


    https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secondhand_smoke/general_facts/index.htm

    The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke. (2014). Retrieved from


    https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/tobacco/Pages/Dangers-of-Secondhand-Sm
    oke.aspx

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