Today we celebrate the 39th Great American Smokeout, because tobacco use is still the number one cause of preventable death and disease. You’re thinking I don’t smoke and secondhand smoke is harmless, but it’s not harmless! In this month’s AJHP Editor’s Note O’Donnell describes secondhand smoke as small particles containing high concentrations of chemical carcinogens that have real killing power. Be around secondhand smoke for just 5 min. and your aorta stiffens, in 20-30 min. blood clotting & fat deposits increase in your blood vessels, and by 2 hours your heartbeat becomes irregular. Your body can’t put up with an assault from secondhand smoke, why do you?
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