Secondhand smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals; 200 are poisons; 43 cause cancer. Secondhand smoke has been classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a known cause of cancer in humans (Group A carcinogen).

Smoking is a team sport. Every day between 5,000 and 6,000 U.S. teens light up for the first time. Nicotine will eventually hook half of them. Virtually every one of those new smokers sucks in the first lung-full of Marlboro because his/her friends smoke. Teenagers think that smoking will impress their friends, make them look good and help them to fit in. The Department of Health and Human Services reports that one of the factors that influences teens to begin smoking is "having friends who smoke and having a best friend who smokes." The power of peers to get their friends to smoke is considerable. For one thing smoking appeals to teenagers because it's a symbol. Smoking says, "I've broken away from my parents; I'm independent, an adult." Smoking with peers says, "I'm tight with my grown up friends." If you smoke you may be influenced by kids who won't achieve much. Up to 70% of high school dropouts are smokers [4]. Forty-seven (47) percent of D average students are smokers, while only 7% of A average students smoke (www.livingbold.net/articles/lb020701b.html).

ds for both the smoker, and all others breathing the second hand smoke.

The EPA estimates that secondhand smoke is responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths and 35,000 heart disease deaths in nonsmokers each year. Secondhand smoke is especially harmful to young children. EPA estimates that secondhand smoke is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children under 18 months of age annually, resulting in between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations each year. Every year, more than 53,000 non-smokers die from exposure to secondhand smoke, making it the third leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. For every eight smokers the tobacco industry kills, it takes one non-smoker with them (http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/secondhand_factsheet99.html).

Secondhand Smoke; also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and passive smoking. Second Hand - Secondhand smoke comes from two places: smoke breathed out by the person who smokes, and smoke from the end of a burning cigarette. Secondhand smoke cau

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