People who live with someone who smokes or have frequent, prolonged exposure to secondhand smoke (such as in a work setting) are at a much higher risk for ...

Chronic exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke and many respiratory infections during the first few months or years of life can greatly dispose a child to ...

Secondhand smoke is defined as the smoke which is exhaled by the smoker plus the smoke created by the smouldering of a lit cigarette. Secondhand smoke is ...

Even if you're a nonsmoker, cigarettes (or cigars or pipes) may be hazardous to your health, because of the secondhand smoke you end up inhaling whenever ...

Head Start children and their families may experience better health and fewer asthma attacks because of a partnership between the US Environmental ...

The US Surgeon General has declared secondhand smoke a hazard to human health and says the only way to eliminate the dangers to children and nonsmoking ...

Premenopausal women who are exposed to secondhand smoke on a regular basis have an increased risk of breast cancer, similar to that of women who actively ...

Do you think secondhand smoke poses a serious health risk? Should smoking be banned in bars? Resaurants? Parks and playgrounds?

Hydrogen Cyanide is poisonous gas present in cigarette smoke. Hydrogen cyanide is present in secondhand smoke and is a danger to smokers and nonsmokers ...

Smoking cigarettes makes asthma worse. Asthma is an inflammatory lung disease that blocks air flow in the airways that lead to the lungs. Smoke from tobacco ...