Passive smoke increases risk of heart disease, lung cancer
Sandi Effendi, staff nurse in mubarak al kabeer hospital
Kuwait city, July 16, a new comprehensive scientific report issued by the surgeon general in the united state, concluded that there is no risk- free level of exposure to passive or second-hand smoke. The study found that non smokers exposed to passive smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent.
The conclusions of the report one of a major public health concern, due to the fact that a large percentage of all the non-smoking residents in GCC countries are regularly exposed to passive smoke. In the region, non smokers are exposed to passive smoke to a much greater extend than in the most other countries across the world due to the fact that shopping centers, restaurants, and other public facilities, in the region have yet to implement a smoke free policy that has been establish in numerous countries world-wide.
Rany Victor, spokesperson for nicotinell in the region started the report further enhances and adds credibility to all the other studies on passive smoking and the dangers of smoke. Let this be a warning to all the smokers that put the health of others at risk. Its seen by the case of the ten year-old in Dubai who had lung cancer damage equivalent to a person who smokes 50 cigarettes a day, smoking can harm not only smokers but also non-smokers
The report also clearly started that the only real way to guard no- smokers from the 4,000 dangerous chemicals and toxin found in the passive smoke was to eliminate smoking in all public places
Banning smoking in public areas is one step that some high profile people in the UAE have been pushing for, including Dr Ayesha Al-Mutawa Director of the Central Health unit under the Ministry of Health, and Dr Laila Mohammad Al Marzouki of the Department of Health, and Medical Services, Nicotinell are also running campaigns to warn people of the danger of both smoking as well as the dangers that non smokers face and to assist people in giving up their smoking habit
The report went on to emphasize that passive smoke exposure is a leading cause of heart disease and lung cancer in non-smoking adults as well as being a known cause of sudden infant death syndrome, breathing complications, ear, nose and throat infections, and asthma attacks in children and infants
Kuwait city, July 16, a new comprehensive scientific report issued by the surgeon general in the united state, concluded that there is no risk- free level of exposure to passive or second-hand smoke. The study found that non smokers exposed to passive smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent.
The conclusions of the report one of a major public health concern, due to the fact that a large percentage of all the non-smoking residents in GCC countries are regularly exposed to passive smoke. In the region, non smokers are exposed to passive smoke to a much greater extend than in the most other countries across the world due to the fact that shopping centers, restaurants, and other public facilities, in the region have yet to implement a smoke free policy that has been establish in numerous countries world-wide.
Rany Victor, spokesperson for nicotinell in the region started the report further enhances and adds credibility to all the other studies on passive smoking and the dangers of smoke. Let this be a warning to all the smokers that put the health of others at risk. Its seen by the case of the ten year-old in Dubai who had lung cancer damage equivalent to a person who smokes 50 cigarettes a day, smoking can harm not only smokers but also non-smokers
The report also clearly started that the only real way to guard no- smokers from the 4,000 dangerous chemicals and toxin found in the passive smoke was to eliminate smoking in all public places
Banning smoking in public areas is one step that some high profile people in the UAE have been pushing for, including Dr Ayesha Al-Mutawa Director of the Central Health unit under the Ministry of Health, and Dr Laila Mohammad Al Marzouki of the Department of Health, and Medical Services, Nicotinell are also running campaigns to warn people of the danger of both smoking as well as the dangers that non smokers face and to assist people in giving up their smoking habit
The report went on to emphasize that passive smoke exposure is a leading cause of heart disease and lung cancer in non-smoking adults as well as being a known cause of sudden infant death syndrome, breathing complications, ear, nose and throat infections, and asthma attacks in children and infants
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