Shockingly, second-hand smoke kills 1 in 100 people. This is what experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) say in the journal The Lancet know.
Every year around 600,000 people die worldwide to the effects of secondhand smoke? Of which 165,000 children. This result stems from research in which the researchers studied the statistics of 192 countries from 2004. There were no more recent figures.
Heart disease and lung cancer
According to the WHO, people who smoke die especially heart disease. After that, asthma, lung cancer and other respiratory problems the causers. Worldwide, 40 percent of children, 33 percent of male non-smokers and 35 percent of female non-smokers breathe involuntarily into the tobacco smoke of others. So a bad thing.
Notable: the adult deaths occur in all countries. However, the children who die from secondhand smoke live mainly in poor countries † How come? These children are often less strong due to other infections and are therefore easily susceptible to other disorders.
