You Don’t Smoke but You Will Still Have Disease: The Scourge of Second-hand Smoking Continues

We arguably live in better times. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), exposure to second-hand smoke in the US has been halved since the turn of the millennium, as much thanks to a dwindling flock of smokers as ever-multiplying smoking bans and smoking-prohibitive households. From 2000 to 2012, the number of non-smokers in the US who were exposed to second-hand smoke decreased from 53 percent to 25 percent.

This does not in any way mean the danger has receded. Second-hand smoke is still very much a bane of society. Since 1964, second-hand smoke exposure has taken some …read more