Passive smokers

No less a lack of writings that discuss the negative effects of smoking on health. Various health impacts are acceptable to smokers even to the number of deaths from smoking so much it did not make the number of smokers is reduced drastically, especially in Indonesia.

And smoking was not only bring harm to smokers only, it turns out the negative impact is also accepted by people who were smokers or near the neighborhood commonly referred to as passive smokers.

More than 600 thousand people in the world of non-smokers died from tobacco smoke (passive smoking). Researchers at the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare and Bloomberg Philanthropies perform research by analyzing data on passive smoking in 192 countries, which began in 2004. The results of these studies found that 40% of children and more than 30% of men and women to be passive smokers.

Passive smoking can lead to approximately 379,000 deaths from heart disease, 165,000 deaths from respiratory disease, 36,900 deaths from asthma, and 21,400 deaths from lung cancer each year.

Children with parental smokers have a higher risk of sudden death syndrome, ear infections, pneumonia, bronchitis, and asthma. Their lungs also will develop more slowly than children whose parents did not smoke.

Many countries have to ban smoking in public places. In Indonesia itself has many areas that apply Regulation (Regulation) regarding the prohibition of smoking in public places, where one of his goals to reduce the negative impact of smoking on nonsmokers. But as usual, in the implementation of this rule is not yet visible.

The smokers in addition to harming oneself also harms others, violate the rights of others who are non-smokers to obtain healthy air without cigarette smoke. Come girder movement to stop smoking.