Smoking alone opens the gate of a wide range of diseases. Some of the life threatening diseases that occur as a result of smoking are cancers, heart attacks, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory disorders. Studies have revealed that second hand smoking can be more harmful than smoking at the first place. Everyone says that they are aware of second hand smoking but very few seem to have an in-depth knowledge of second hand smoking. Let us try to find what exactly does it mean by second hand smoking, how it affects our body and what are the ways to prevent the hazards of second hand smoking.

Secondhand smoke is found to be harmful to adults as well as children and even to the newborn child. Infants are more vulnerable to the ill-effects of secondhand smoke. Heart diseases are one of the common health problems associated with secondhand smoking. It has been found that nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke are 25 per cent more likely to have coronary heart diseases than nonsmokers who are not exposed to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke has also been associated with number of cancers such as lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer and so on. Pregnant women exposed to secondhand smoke are at a higher risk of having low birth weight baby and sudden infant death syndrome .