If you would like to quit smoking, contact your
local American Lung Association for more
information on their Freedom From Smoking®
programs. This is the most important step you
can take to protect yourself and your family
from the dangers of secondhand smoke.


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the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
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ECONDHAND SMOKE is the
smoke exhaled from the lungs of
smokers and the smoke that comes
  from the burning end of a
  cigarette, cigar or pipe.

    In fact, the smoke from the
        burning end of a cigarette,
        cigar or pipe that goes
       directly into the air is more
     dangerous to everyone around
     you than the smoke you
  breathe out!

   Secondhand smoke contains
     more than 4,000 substances,
      more than 40 of which are
       known to cause cancer in
        humans or animals and
          many of which are strong
          irritants.
9 Don't smoke in your house or let anyone
  else smoke in your house.
6 Don't smoke around children, especially
  infants and toddlers.
• Don't allow anyone to smoke around your
  children.

® If someone in your family insists on
  smoking in the house, open windows or
  use a fan to send smoke out a window in
  the room where smoking takes place.
e Let family, friends and people you work
  with know that you do care if they smoke
  around you.

9 In your car, do not smoke or allow others to
  smoke while the windows are rolled up.

• In restaurants and bars, ask to sit in the
  nonsmoking area.

e Make sure your child's day-care/ school and
  after-school programs are smoke free.

« Ask your employer to make sure you do
  not have to breathe other people's smoke at
  work.
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• SECONDHAND SMOKE
  causes about 3,000 deaths
  each year from lung cancer
  in people who don't
  smoke.

9 SECONDHAND
  SMOKE causes
  irritation of the eyes,
  nose, and throat.

* SECONDHAND
  SMOKE can also
  irritate the lungs,
  leading to coughing,
  excessive phlegm, and
  chest discomfort.

• SECONDHAND SMOKE
  has been linked  with the onset
  of chest pains and may affect
  the heart, according to some
  studies.
9 Children who breathe
  SECONDHAND SMOKE are
  more likely to suffer from
  pneumonia, bronchitis, and other
  lung diseases.

e Children who breathe
  SECONDHAND SMOKE have
  more ear infections.

® Children who breathe
  SECONDHAND SMOKE are
  more likely to develop asthma.

e Children who have asthma and
  who breathe SECONDHAND
  SMOKE have more asthma attacks.

9 There are an estimated 150,000 to
  300,000 cases every year of
  infections, such as bronchitis and
  pneumonia in infants and children
  under 18 months of age who
  breathe SECONDHAND SMOKE.
  These result in between 7,500 and
  - 15,000 hospitalizations!

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