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Please help, how much second hand smoke is equal to smoking a cigarette?
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Secondhand smoke: If a person spends more than two hours in a room where someone is smoking, the nonsmoker inhales the equivalent of four cigarettes.
Answered 9/29/2016
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Same as smoking.: The risks may be lower, but they're the same as smoking. Heart disease. Lung cancer. Emphysema. The list goes on.
Answered 10/15/2015
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