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Second hand smoke is not only bad for lungs and heart but it affects the mental health too.

To find out the link between secondhand smoke and mental health, researchers studied 5,560 non-smokers and 2,595 smoking adults from Scotland. None of the participants had any history of mental illness. The participants were tracked for six years. Exposure to secondhand smoke among non-smokers was determined using saliva levels of cotinine and is an established marker of nicotine exposure.

A total of 14.5 percent of participants reported distressed mental health. It was found that the higher a person’s secondhand smoke exposure, the greater their risk of mental health distress. While the risk was highest for people who were themselves smokers. People with high exposure to secondhand smoke who didn’t actually smoke themselves were 62 percent more likely to report mental health distress than those unexposed to secondhand smoke, while the risk for smokers was almost three times higher. (more…)

Anti-Smokers are increasing daily and a new meet on May 27 has proved it again. On may 27th more than 130 business owners met at Villa Barone Hilltop Manor in Mahopac to show their anti-smoking trend. They were also strong against the control of tobacco spread. The New York State Tobacco Control Program is in the process of aiding things to the hospitals and in that way the Helen Hayes Hospital got the fund.

The physicians and nurses were trained using a big screen and they were taught how to stop smoking. Even the tobacco retailers are standing against these days and they have reduced the advertisements done on it. New York spends $8.17 billion to prevent smoking and especially in kids. In New York, 21,000 kids under the age of 18 gets addicted to smoking every year.