Passive smoking
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Passive smoking is the inhalation of tobacco smoke, called passive smoke, secondhand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke, by individuals other than the active smoker. It occurs when tobacco smoke dif
Tobacco smoke in an English pub before a ban came into place in 2007
Old prevention poster from New Zealand. "When a child breathes air filled with cigarette smoke it can be as bad as if he actually smoked the cigarette himself."
Children playing while their mothers smoke, 1945. Scenes such as this were common before the dangers of passive smoke were widely recognized.
Breath CO monitor displaying carbon monoxide concentration of an exhaled breath sample (in ppm) with corresponding percent concentration of carboxyhemoglobin displayed below
Tobacco smoking
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Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and the absorption of the resulting smoke into one's body. The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or released from the mouth, as is do
Cigarettes and package with health warning
Aztec women are handed flowers and smoking tubes before eating at a banquet, Florentine Codex, 16th century.
Tobacco field in Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Basma leaves curing in the sun at Pomak village of Xanthi, Thrace, Greece