Smokers Health & Passive Smoking
The smokers’ health can be attacked even by their cigarette smoke, a recent study found. Researchers warn that those who inhale their own secondhand smoke, especially while puffing out in enclosed areas like smoking lounges, may face serious health risks.
This recent study found that smokers can inhale toxins even from their secondhand smoke, which may be equal to several additional cigarettes per day. So, researchers denied the previous finding which showed that tobacco smoke is more dangerous for smokers than inhaling the secondhand smoke.
Scientists from the National Cancer Research Institute in Genoa, Italy, investigated 15 smokers who worked on bookstalls to come up with this last result. They decided to enroll in their study newsagents because they worked in enclosed place.
Maria Teresa Piccardo of the National Cancer Research Institute in Genoa, Italy, declared: “Newsagents were chosen because they work alone in small newsstands, that’s mean that any tobacco smoke in the air they breathe is exactly correlated to the number of cigarettes smoked by that newsagent. She added: “We studied the tobacco smoke contribution made to carcinogen exposure in 15 active smokers. Both active and passive smoking contributions should always be considered in studies about health of active smokers.”
At the end of investigation they found that each participant smoked 14 cigarettes per day on an average. Air samplers were used to measure each worker’s exposure to passive smoking. The researchers also found that the secondhand smoke was adding an extra 2.6 regular cigarettes each day to the participants’ counterpart.
They showed also that even the secondhand smoke inhaled from other smokers in the enclosed places added the equivalent of 1.3 regular cigarettes to the smokers’ daily carcinogen exposure.
However, the researchers warn that both active and passive smoking increase the odds of cancer and heart diseases.
Smokers can protect themselves from secondhand smoke only if they will follow the researchers’ advices: should abstain from smoking in poorly ventilated areas, which may be more risky for health, and should rather think quitting the smoking habit.
