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Quit for Your Loved Ones
How Smoking Affects Nonsmokers
Secondhand smoke is a serious risk to the developing lungs of young children.
One non-smoker dies of secondhand smoke for every eight smokers.
Second hand smoke has more than 40 cancer causing substances and many of these are irritants to the eyes, nose and throat.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified secondhand smoke as a class A carcinogen—a substance known to cause cancer in people, which is unsafe to consume in any quantity—just like asbestos, radon or benzene.
Secondhand smoke causes 30,000–40,000 deaths each year from heart-related illnesses.
Nearly 14,000 cancer deaths are related to secondhand smoke every year, along with 3,800 from lung cancer.
Living or working closely with a smoker adds to a non-smoker’s risk of death from heart illness by 30%.