2nd Hand Smoking Kills Too
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My work is managing a band who plays in bars, hotel’s and event’s. Many find it weird because I don’t drink or even smoke. I normally compensate by talking a lot and listening a lot to other people. Most of the places we work at are filled with smokers and many of us breathe their fumes whether we like it or not. While cigarette smoking is an undisputed cause of lung cancer, approximately ten per cent of lung cancers occur in non-smokers like me. Although not every non-smoker suffering from lung cancer will have an identifiable risk factor for development of the disease, a number of conditions and circumstances have been identified that will increase our chance of developing lung cancer.
Passive smoking or the inhalation of tobacco smoke from other smokers is an established risk factor for the development of lung cancer. This is what smokers don’t know and apparently don’t care is that some of the chemicals found in second hand smoking include: carbon monoxide (found in car fumes), ammonia (found in window cleaner), cadium (found in batteries), and arsenic (found in rat poison).
Aside from our polluted air, people who are exposed to second hand smoke would likely to develop and die from heart problems, breathing problems and lung cancer.
In this case, I am making sure that my insurance is worth all the smoke I get from other people.