Secondhand Smoking Facts and Statistics (U.S.).

Secondhand smoking facts enlighten us on how widespread the effects of secondhand smoke are on the non smoking population. These secondhand smoking statistics also emphasize the need to make our homes, workplaces and public places smoke free.

A smoker should not smoke but if he has to, he might as well limit the dangers of smoking to himself only and not to others around him. Secondhand smoke is dangerous and a secondhand smoker involuntarily faces the same dangers to health as a smoker himself. These secondhand smoke statistics and facts tell you just how many secondhand smokers suffer health wise and die of secondhand smoking.

Secondhand Smoke Statistics.

As mentioned in effects of secondhand smoking, secondhand smoke adversely affects the brain, lungs, heart of the secondhand smoker. Below are given some secondhand smoking statistics for the United States.

 

• Dangers of second hand smoke are more at home and work places than public places.
• About 46,000 deaths caused by heart disease due to second hand smoke are reported every year in the U.S. and 4 million children are exposed to second hand smoke in their homes.
• About 40% or 88 million non smokers ( 4 years and older) are being exposed to secondhand smoke
• About 53% of children between the ages of 3 to 11 years are at high risk of second hand smoke due to exposure.
• Even a brief exposure to second hand smoke is enough to put you to risk.
• Non smokers who are exposed to second hand smoke are at a 25% to 30% increased risk of getting heart disease.
• Similarly risk of lung cancer is as high as 20% to 30%.
• About 1,50,000 to 3,00,000 new cases of bronchitis and pneumonia are reported every year in non smokers due to secondhand smoke.
• About 7,500 to 15,000 children below 18 years of age are admitted each year for health disorders caused by second hand smoke.
• Recent studies have concluded that women are more susceptible to DNA damage than men when exposed to secondhand smoke.

• Studies also conclude that after imposition of restrictions and no smoking zones, there was a marked decline in cases of heart diseases in those areas.

Comparison of  secondhand smoke statistics for the last 20 years.

• Between 1998 to 1991, 88% of non smokers were exposed to secondhand smoke.
• In 1999 – 2000 this figure dropped to 53%.
• In 2007 – 2008, about 40% non smokers were exposed to secondhand smoke.

These secondhand smoking statistics show us how unnecessarily and how many men, women and children are adversely affected by secondhand smoke. This, we hope will convince the smoker to protect others around him from the ill effects of his vice.

 

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