Dangers of Passive Smokers 3 Times Active Smokers

Setyo Budiantoro of the Association of Public Health of Indonesia (IAKMI) said, as much as 25 percent of the hazardous substances contained in cigarette smoke enter the body, while 75 percent free air circulating in the risk of entry in to the body of people around him.

Inhaling someone else's cigarette smoke is more hazardous than smoking itself. Even the dangers which must be borne passive smokers are times over the dangers of active smokers.

Toxins produced by largest tobacco smoke billowing from the tip of the cigarette is not inhaled. Because the smoke produced from burning tobacco that is not ideal.

The concentration of harmful substances in the body of passive smokers is greater because the poison is sucked through the cigarette smoke of active smokers are not filtered. While cigarette toxins in the body of active smokers filtered through the finish of cigarettes smoked. "But the concentration of poisons active smokers could increase if the active smokers inhale smoke again that they exhales."

Tar

Here are lots of hazardous substances contained in a cigarette:


Nicotine

  * In the human body, tar trigger a lung irritant & cancer.
  * In the body of used smoke, tar will be concentrated times higher than in active smokers.


Carbon monoxide

  * In the human body or opiate addiction effects that trigger increased consumption.
  * In passive smokers, nicotine will be concentrated times higher than in active smokers.

  * It is a hazardous gas that can reduce oxygen levels in the body. Binding of oxygen by carbon monoxide is then lead to heart disease.
  * In the body of used smoke, harmful gases will be concentrated times higher than in active smokers.


Hazardous chemicals

  * Kind of gas & hazardous substances which amounted to thousands. In the human body, these hazardous chemicals increase cancer risk.
  * In the body of secondhand smoke, hazardous chemicals will be concentrated 50-fold compared to active smokers in the body.


Citing the results of the WHO study, Budi said, smoke-free environments are the only effective strategy to provide protection for passive smokers.

Provision of smoking area is also not fully protect nonsmokers from the dangers of cigarettes. "Provision of smoking area inside the building as well as urinating in a corner of the pool, will blend well," they said. "The smoke still going through the vents."

Global Youth Survey information of 1999-2006, as much as 81 percent of children aged 13-15 years in Indonesia exposed to smoke in public places or become passive smokers. "Whereas the average percentage of only 56 percent of the world," they said.

While the information of the National Economic Social Survey 2004 shows that, over 87 percent of active smokers smoke at home when being with their relatives members. The survey also found 71 percent of households have expenditures for smoking.

The survey also shows, over 150 million Indonesian population exposure to secondhand smoke at home, in offices, in public places, on public transport.