SMOKING TYPES – Active and passive smoking.

There are two types of smoking namely, active smoking as well as passive smoking. Active smoking is consolidated to only one individual who smoke who is the smoker himself. It is the smoking of the poisonous gas and it is also estimated that each time the person smokes; he reduces his life by fifteen to twenty minutes.

Passive smoking is the second type which involves the third person. The passive smoker inhales the smoke exhaled by the smoker. This also posses the same health risks as that of the smoker himself. The risks related to smoking are enormous and people have to think about more so that they do not fall as a victim for all these risks. After a long and detailed researched, it is found that more illness is confined to the children and the infants. This is because they are unable to move away from the place where smoke exists. But in case of the adults they can voluntarily move away. Studies also points out that the smoke remains for about one to two hours even in a well ventilated room thus increasing the volume inhaled by the passive smoker.

The risks introduced by different types of smoking are mainly concerned with the respirator system related to breathing problems. It includes SIDS which is sudden infant death syndrome, birth defects, illnesses in children, low birth weight, middle ear infection, cancers and leukemia in the younger ones, learning difficulty, meningococcal infections in young ones, behavior related problems like anxiety, immaturity and depression, pneumonia, asthma, allergies and bronchitis. These are represented as infections produced in children.

In case of adults, the varying types of smoking results in diseases like stroke, bronchitis, heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, infections, nasal cancer, ear infections, spontaneous abortion, cervical cancer, asthma exacerbation in adults, decreased lung function and cystic fibrosis. Active and passive smoking plays a major role in the occurrence of different infections and diseases thus reducing man’s life to half or even lesser. Therefore, people are into the campaign of quitting smoking so that there would be a tremendous decrease in the diseases caused and the deaths due to smoking.