Adult smokers can become ill or die from smoking-related diseases like heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung and bladder cancer, stroke, hardening of the arteries, and asthma. Smoking can cause diseases of nearly all organs of your body. There is NO risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Thirdhand smoke is smoke residues that get on skin, clothes, furniture, carpets, and other things in the smoker’s environment, including their pets’ fur or feathers. Secondhand smoke is exhaled tobacco smoke and the smoke from the lit product itself. If 58 million non-smoking adults and children are exposed to tobacco smoke, imagine how many pets are exposed.īoth secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke hurt pets. Smoking’s not only harmful to people it’s harmful to pets, too. 2 That’s 58 million people exposed to something that’s preventable. So, what can be done to help someone I care about cut back on or quit smoking?ĭid you know that smoking is the leading preventable cause of death, disease, and disability in the United States? 1 In the U.S., one out of every four non-smokers and two out of every five children are exposed to the harmful effects of secondhand and thirdhand smoke.
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