2007-11-11 12:34:55 · 16 answers · asked by misterman 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
Passive smoking is extremely dangerous and gives the recipient all the risks of a smoker, but at a lower level. If subjected to it on a regular basis it is addictive.
2007-11-12 15:18:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Frank 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though non smokers don't become addicted to smoking through passive smoking, isn't it bad enough for them to die from passive smoking?
2007-11-12 01:03:32 · answer #2 · answered by happy inside 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Second-hand smoke is said to be worse than actually smoking because you're breathing in the toxic by-products of the cigarette. This can harm your heart and respiratory system, but you're not actually becoming addicted to the cigarette itself unless you smoke it. I guess there is a certain jolt of pleasure that smokers get from inhaling, that non-smokers do not. The harmful effects exist for both, however.
2007-11-11 13:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by gldjns 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The carcinogens that cause the addiction are all enhaled by the direct user. The ones that escape into the air are harmful in larger doses over time, but not addictive. It gets diffused in the open air too much.
2007-11-11 12:41:14 · answer #4 · answered by rocksister 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No nicotine in passive smoke. Nicotine causes the cravings
2007-11-11 12:39:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the amounts of nicotine in the second hand smoke are too low to cause addiction?
2007-11-11 12:43:11 · answer #6 · answered by 2007_Shelby_GT500 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they usually die of lung cancer.
Like the late Roy Castle who never smoked but played his trumpet in smoke filled clubs up and down the country little knowing that he was passive smoking and it was killing him.
2007-11-11 12:48:39 · answer #7 · answered by Terry G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who says they haven't? Have you got proof that those that smoke didn't become addicted purely from smelling others' smoke?
2007-11-11 12:41:37 · answer #8 · answered by micksmixxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the addiction that gives you cancer; it's the smoke regardless of whose lungs it passed through first. Imagine that filth! Crap out of someone else's lungs going through your nose and mouth, into your lungs....and they call it "passive smoke."
2007-11-11 12:45:42 · answer #9 · answered by Laredo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are cars and power stations addictive, **** up your and my lungs, more than the cigarette I'm stubbing out on your head?
Go live in a cave then start moaning about what i'm doing to your life
2007-11-11 13:09:35 · answer #10 · answered by jodes_666 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋