Secondhand smoke is actually worse than smoking itself . Only 15% of smoke is inhaled and by the smoker and the other 85% goes directly into the air to be inhaled by involuntary nonsmokers. It is a major cause of lung cancer and respiratory disease in young people because secondhand smoke is cigarette, cigar or pipe smoke that is inhaled unintentionally by nonsmokers. When exposed to secondhand smoke lung caner kills more women than breast cancer and is the second leading cause of premature death for men. Secondhand smoke inhalation causes increased risk of lung infections and lung disease as bad as pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, to
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