Environmental Tobacco Smoke [ETS], or secondhand smoke, is the third leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the U.S.; the first is active smoking, the second is alcohol use. ETS is killing approximately 53,000 nonsmokers in the U.S. each year. Both active smoking and alcohol abuse require a willing participant. This in my opinion is what makes the major difference between the leading three causes of preventable deaths. I do not ask or volunteer to be exposed to secondhand smoke. The problem however is that due to the lack of laws and peoples rights I am therefore exposed to this deadly carcinogen on a daily basis.

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Exposure to secondhand smoke can be extremely harmful to children as well. The developing lungs of young children are severely affected by exposure to secondhand smoke for several reasons including that children are still developing physically, have higher breathing rates than adults, and have little control over their indoor environments. Children receiving high doses of secondhand smoke, such as those with smoking mothers, run the greatest risk of damaging health effects. Some of the serious effects include asthma, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), bronchitis and pneumonia and ear infections. Children's exposure to secondhand smoke is responsible for the increases in the number of asthma attacks and severity of symptoms in 200,000 to 1 million children with asthma. ETS can also be attributed to between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections (for children less than 18 months of age)

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