Fans of detective novels are well aware that nicotine is a violent poison, capable of killing (keep nicotine patches and gums out of the reach of children). But tobacco smoke contains many other highly toxic compounds. 4,000 harmful substances, including at least ten known carcinogens, are contained in tobacco smoke. This is why there is little point in buying environmentally friendly household products if you continue to poison the atmosphere of your cigarettes. Smoking is by far the main internal threat. We know the harmful effects of passive smoking, which can cause asthma, lung cancer or stroke in people who have never smoked. Its consequences are particularly serious in children. When babies are exposed daily to the smoke of more than three cigarettes, there is a fear of impact on their lungs, with an increased risk of respiratory infections, sudden death of the baby. infant and bronchial cancer in adulthood.
How to protect non-smokers?
We will not do you the insult to remember that the best solution is, of course, to Stop ! If you haven’t gotten rid of the addiction yet, at least you need to protect your loved ones from secondhand smoke. The only solution: avoid smoking inside. Even when you open the windows, the components of the smoke permeate the fabrics and continue to emit.
The electronic cigarette, really harmless?
Developed by the Chinese in 2005, it is especially for two years that it invades our daily life and is a real “tobacco”. Nearly a million French people have now passed into the clan of “vapers”, seduced by this fake cigarette supposed to be less harmful and less expensive. Does this mean that they can use it without endangering their health and that of those around them? “The most dangerous are the products resulting from the combustion of tobacco,” explains Dr Anne-Laurence Le Faou, tobacco specialist at the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital in Paris. The electronic cigarette therefore undoubtedly contains fewer harmful products. A team of American, British and Polish researchers tested twelve different brands of e-cigarettes with a “smoking machine” and analyzed their vapors. Depending on the substance, they found doses of toxicants 9 to 450 times lower than in cigarettes. For Prof. Bertrand Dautzenberg, pulmonologist and president of the French Office for the Prevention of Smoking (OFT), there is no photo either. “Tobacco is such a poison! At least the electronic cigaretteis it devoid of carcinogenic tar, fine particles that cause coughs and asphyxiating carbon monoxide, even if there are still products that irritate the throat. “Unknowns remain, however, and it would take more time to say that e-cigarettes are safe. Shouldn’t we wait at least ten to fifteen years before noticing the harmful effects of tobacco?
