How to reduce the harm of secondhand smoke

Many people usually have the habit of smoking. We all know that frequent smoking will affect physical health and will also harm the health of people around you. In fact, the harm of secondhand smoke is greater than the harm of direct smoking. Nicotine in secondhand smoke will stimulate the human brain. If you inhale secondhand smoke for a long time, it will cause people to have memory loss and seriously affect their health. How to reduce the harm of secondhand smoke?

How to reduce the harm of secondhand smoke?

1. If there are smokers at home, try to prepare a smoking area on the balcony and do not smoke indoors; if it is unavoidable at work, open the window for ventilation; keep a distance from smokers in public places and stay away from them as much as possible;

2. Cultivating maidenhair fern, camellia, daffodil, monstera, silver queen, aloe vera and cactus indoors can purify the air and remove harmful gases such as formaldehyde and nicotine;

3. Eat foods rich in selenium, such as animal liver, seaweed and shrimp;

4. Drink more water and urinate more often. Exercising more and sweating more can speed up the elimination of nicotine from the body.

5. Lighting candles can eliminate smoke smell, lighting incense can drive away smoke dust, and toilet water can reduce the damage caused by smoke smell.

The harm of secondhand smoke

1. Poor memory

Frequent inhalation of secondhand smoke can have a great impact on our memory. Nicotine and other harmful substances in smoke can stimulate the brain and cause hardening of cerebral blood vessels, thus affecting brain function. The intellectual development of children who are exposed to passive smoking for a long time is significantly worse than that of children who grow up in a non-smoky environment.

2. Premature birth is likely to occur

Smoking is common at home. Nicotine and other harmful substances can be detected in the amniotic fluid of 90% of pregnant women who are passively exposed to secondhand smoke, indicating that tobacco smoke directly pollutes the intrauterine environment where the fetus grows.

Secondhand smoke has a huge impact on children's health. Exposure to secondhand smoke also affects the proliferation and differentiation of embryonic cells, leading to abnormal embryonic development, which is manifested in developmental disorders of the nervous system and intrauterine growth retardation. In addition, it is easy to cause premature birth of the baby.

3. Lung cancer

According to a survey, smokers are significantly more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers. By analyzing the smoke inhaled by smokers, it was found that the smoke contains dozens of carcinogens. The risk of lung cancer is related to the length of time you smoke. The earlier you start smoking, the greater the risk. The longer you smoke, the higher the incidence and mortality of lung cancer.

4. Cause asthma, pneumonia, and ear inflammation in children

Children generally experience higher environmental exposures than adults because they breathe more air and, therefore, inhale more pollutants than adults. In addition, children are active, have poor self-protection abilities, and have incomplete immune functions, making them most vulnerable to harm from pollutants.