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1 You don’t have to smoke to get affected
Secondhand Smoke You don’t have to smoke to get affected

2 How It Affects Others Between 70% and 90% of the American population, children and adults are regularly affected to secondhand smoke. It is estimated that only 15% of cigarette smoke gets inhaled by the smokers. The remaining 85% stays in the air for everyone to breathe.

3 What’s In It? Secondhand smoke:
contains over 4000 chemicals including more than 40 cancer causing agents and 200 known poisons Consists twice as much tar and nicotine per unit volume as much does smoke inhaled from a cigarette

4 Diseases Over the past two decades, medical research has shown that non-smokers undergo many of the diseases of energetic smoking when they breathe secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer and helps to the development of heart disease. Secondhand smoke can also kill the smoker and everyone around him/her.

5 Smoking Addictions Smoking addictions not only affects your life but also affects others. Once you start smoking, it’s almost impossible to stop. Smoking addictions also causes your body to receive diseases and prevents you to stop smoking.

6 How Do You Stop Secondhand Smoke?
Put up signs for non-smoking areas Avoid people smoking or stop them Don’t smoke!!!!

7 Credits Pictures are from yahoo and google images
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