One of those habits that carry ...

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Passive smokers, who are they?

Today, at the beginning of the third millennium, despite the enormous progress in many areas of life and activities of human society, must sadly admit that it is, our society and bring out the historic far as many vices and addictions. One of those habits, carries away, millions of lives - smoking tobacco. Imported sometime to us from overseas, it is also rooted in Russian soil, which we have now in our country, millions of smokers. In a group of national experts prepared the document "Towards a healthy Russia. Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention" (1994) states that "the frequency of smoking in Russia is one of the highest among industrialized countries, especially among men (50-60% are regular smokers) . According to another estimate, in our country only in the age group 25 to 64 years of smoking about 17 million men and 5.5 million women. But now it goes on smokers themselves, but about people who are forced to breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke, being at one with them indoors. For this category of people even used a special term - "passive smokers, and in recent years, the international spread has also received another term, which roughly translates into Russian as" smoking tobacco out of the environment. " When burning cigarettes (cigarettes) is formed by two streams of smoke: the main and side. The main flow that occurs at the end of a burning cigarette during puffs, passes through the tobacco rod and into the smoker's lungs. Side is formed by the burning end of the period between puffs and enters the surrounding air. These flows differ in their chemical composition. For us, in particular, it is important that the side-stream contains a lot of carcinogenic nitrosamines - a large group of compounds, carcinogenicity, some of them are shown on 40 species of animals, including monkeys. Present in this stream and other substances that are carcinogenic hazard. By some estimates, only staying for 4 hours in the heavily smoke-filled room is equivalent to smoking 2.1 cigarettes. "For many families, smoking is a normal part of everyday life. Unfortunately, children in these families need to grow up in smoke" - begins its review of the "passive smoking" and its impact on children, and A. Schwartz of Boston College environmental problems (U.S. ). Inhalation of tobacco smoke emitted into the air housing, damaging the immune system of children increases their susceptibility to infection, they have disrupted the function of the lungs. Believe that it is children's stay in rooms where parents smoke, increases the incidence of early childhood (bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchial asthma), and may also affect the acceleration of certain other diseases.