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passive smoking
(redirected from Involuntary smoking)

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passive smoking
the inhalation of smoke from other people's cigarettes by a nonsmoker


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But new scientific evidence in the intervening 20 years strengthens the links between involuntary smoking and a host of harmful cardiovascular, respiratory, and reproductive effects.
Involuntary smoking results when nonsmokers are exposed to SHS, and health risks for nonsmokers posed by involuntary smoking were gradually realized.
The studies have led the authors to find that the evidence is sufficient to conclude that involuntary smoking is a cause of lung cancer in people who have never smoked.
 
 
 
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