Jakarta. Sometimes people questioning why cigarette smoke is more concerning than the smoke that comes out of the vehicle. This is because cigarette smoke is more dangerous than car exhaust. But how could that possibly happen?

“Of course both are dangerous, but pollutant from a vehicle fumes is less dangerous, if I’m not wrong it doesn’t even reach 10 percents unlike carbon monoxide, sulfur and nitrogen. ” said dr H Azimal, MKes as Director of Communicable Diseases Control Kemenkes in welcoming the media gathering The World Day Without Tobacco with the theme: “Regulation Through the best, We Protect Youths from the Dangers of Smoking” in the Kemenkes (Health Department) building, Friday (27/05/2011).

While various studies explain that in cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 toxic chemicals (toxic) and 43 cancer-trigerring compounds (carcinogens). This explains why cigarette smoke is more dangerous than car exhaust.

In addition, scientific evidence has also suggested an association between smoking with the occurrence of various diseases such as cancer, heart disease, respiratory system diseases, reproductive disorders and diseases of pregnancy.

“Cigarette smoke that is blown onto the table difficult to remove because its stickiness, so what happens if the smoke blown into the lungs which can be more and more numerous,” he said.

dr Azimal said more than 43 million Indonesian children living in a home with smokers and are exposed to cigarette smoke or as a passive smoker. If children are often exposed to smoke so he may be experiencing a slow lung growth, more susceptible to bronchitis, respiratory infections, ear and asthma.

“For example, in a house his father smoked and there is a baby too, the baby could have impaired growth,” said dr Azimal.

It is estimated that the smell of cigarette smoke are difficult to lose, this because cigarette smoke is made of long chains of molecules, so it takes longer or difficult to remove, especially on fabrics. In addition, cigarette smoke that is produced usually contains many substances or residues.

The number of negative impacts that can be generated from cigarette smoke for one’s health that makes cigarette smoke more to get attention, even so it does not mean harmless fumes because it still contains compounds that are toxic to the body.

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