Second Hand Smoke?

Question

My parents smoked when I was younger. They smoked in the house, in the car, in the car with the windows rolled up... They quit smoking when I was 16 (11 years ago). I lived with them until I was 21. Now I'm 27 and reciently I have had radom moments when it feels wierd/hard when I breath. I also just bought some Berts Bees chap stick and I'm wondering if perhaps my breathing troubble happens when I use the chap stick...or maybe my parent's smoking has caught up to me, or maybe something in the air that I'm allergic too because it's spring now? don't know what to do.

Answer 1

This is a particularly bad time for people who suffer from allergies. Your exposure to second-hand smoke may have left your lungs more susceptible to the harmful effects of allergens.

People should never smoke around children. The younger the child is, the worse it is for them.

Answer 2

Second smoke to chap stick?? What a huge leap! Do you have a bee or honey allergy? You should see a doctor but I doubt second hand smoke would "catch up" to you after 11 years. Coughing and chest congestion may have occurred earlier but I think it is probably something else. Go to the doctor!

Answer 3

well your a lucky guy if you didn't get any lung damage from their smoke. that disgusts me. after stopping you might regain some lung tissue but people who smoke them quit sometimes aren't diagnosed with lung cancer for 20 30 years. not to say your having shortness of breath from cancer you'd know if it was cancer. sounds like you might be a hypochondriac or possibly experiencing a small panic attack or anxiety from your fears of the second hand smoke. it wouldn't hurt to get checked and asked to be seen in a pulmonary function lab for a checkup. don't tell the doctor it happened after you put the Burt's bees on though he wont take you serious.

Answer 4

Allergies, mild bronch, etc. Go to the Doc in the box for an inhaler, or move out west. You also could have a touch of Asthma. Ask a Doc, not us. Most of us are severely retarded with no lives whatsoever than to answer questions we are not even remotely qualified to answer. Even a Doc cannot diagnose you from here without touching your half naked body on a cold semi-disinfected gurney.

Answer 5

i does not understand something approximately that, i'm getting all my smoke rapidly from the source. First hand. as far by using fact the different persons bypass, purely call them Bob and throw them in the pool. they're going to savour the humour for a transformation, quite of human beings continually attempting to act phony.

Answer 6

Probably allergies, but you should go to the doctor to find out for sure. I seriously doubt its from your parents smoking, it most likely would have caught up with you much sooner than now.

Answer 7

when i was a kid everyone in my family smoked, now my lungs are cr*p. second hand smoke is bad for you, its probably it

Answer 8

Secondhand smoke, also know as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. It is involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers, lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished and can cause or exacerbate a wide range of adverse health effects, including cancer, respiratory infections, and asthma.1

Secondhand smoke has been classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a known cause of cancer in humans (Group A carcinogen).
Secondhand smoke exposure causes disease and premature death in children and adults who do not smoke. Secondhand smoke contains hundreds of chemicals known to be toxic or carcinogenic, including formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic ammonia and hydrogen cyanide.
Secondhand smoke causes approximately 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 22,700-69,600 heart disease deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States each year.
A study found that nonsmokers exposed to environmental smoke were 25 percent more likely to have coronary heart diseases compared to nonsmokers not exposed to smoke.
Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at work are at increased risk for adverse health effects. Levels of ETS in restaurants and bars were found to be 2 to 5 times higher than in residences with smokers and 2 to 6 times higher than in office workplaces.
Since 1999, 70 percent of the U.S. workforce worked under a smoke-free policy, ranging from 83.9 percent in Utah to 48.7 percent in Nevada.
Workplace productivity was increased and absenteeism was decreased among former smokers compared with current smokers.
Currently,
states including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have already passed strong smoke-free air laws.
As of 2005, nine smoke-free states prohibit smoking in almost all workplaces, including restaurants and bars (CA, CT, DE, ME, MA, NY, RI, VT and WA).
Secondhand smoke is especially harmful to young children. Secondhand smoke is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children under 18 months of age, resulting in between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations each year, and causes 1,900 to 2,700 sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) deaths in the United States annually.
Secondhand smoke exposure may cause buildup of fluid in the middle ear, resulting in 700,000 to 1.6 million physician office visits per year.
Secondhand smoke can also aggravate symptoms in 400,000 to 1,000,000 children with asthma.
In the United States, 21 million, or 35 percent of, children live in homes where residents or visitors smoke in the home on a regular basis.
Approximately 50-75 percent of children in the United States have detectable levels of cotinine, the breakdown product of nicotine in the blood.
New research indicates that private research conducted by cigarette company Philip Morris in the 1980s showed that secondhand smoke was highly toxic, yet the company suppressed the finding during the next two decades.
The current Surgeon General's Report concluded that scientific evidence indicates that there is no risk-free level of exposure to second hand smoke. Short exposures to second hand smoke can cause blood platelets to become stickier, damage the lining of blood vessels, decrease coronary flow velocity reserves, and reduce heart rate variability, potentially increasing the risk of heart attack.