600 Thousand Passive Smokers Die Every Year

World No Tobacco Day

HealthNewsPoint.com, London: Better late than not at all, this sentence may be appropriate for those who still choose to continue to smoke.
The worst risk is the exposure to secondhand smoke damage the lungs and other vital organs.

Passive smoking is just terrible impact, especially for active smokers.

The first global study shows secondhand smoke is estimated to cause 600,000 deaths annually around the world reported by the BBC, Friday (05/31/2013).

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) one third of passive smokers who have died are children who are often exposed to smoke at home.

Studies in November 2010 in 192 countries, concluded passive smoking is very harmful to children, high risk of sudden infant death syndrome, pneumonia and asthma.

Passive smoking has been linked to heart disease, respiratory disease and lung cancer.
"It helps us understand the real victims of tobacco," said Armando Peruga, of the WHO's Tobacco-Free Initiative, who led the study.

In Southeast Asia and Africa estimated 165,000 children die from respiratory infections due to haze.
"Mixed infectious diseases and secondhand smoke is a deadly combination," said Peruga.

Research conducted in 2004 found 40 percent of children, 33 percent of men and 35 percent of women into the class of second-hand smoke.

This caused 379,000 deaths from heart disease, 165,000 due to lower respiratory infections, 36,900 from asthma and 21,400 from lung cancer.

According to the study, the highest number of second-hand smoke are in Europe and Asia and the lowest levels were in the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa.

This research also revealed that passive smoking killed about 281 000 women around the world, caused 50 per cent in all parts of the world is a passive smoker.

However, the researchers say is the study's limitations, including uncertainty about the underlying health data and gaps in the data associated with secondhand smoke.

Writing in the journal Lancet, Dr Heather Wipfli of the University of Southern California and his colleague, saying "There is also acknowledged uncertainty in the estimates of disease burden. However, 1.2 billion smokers in the world exposing billions of non-smokers to become passive smokers, which cause disease
indoor air pollutants ".