What is Secondhand Smoke

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), which is also referred to as secondhand smoke, is a mixture of the smoke emanating from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar, and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers.  It has also been called passive, or involuntary, smoke.  Although different sources may use different terms and varied definitions, the basic focus is on the exposure of a nonsmoker to the high levels of carcinogenic and toxic fumes emitted from burning tobacco.

What's in Secondhand Smoke?

SHS contains over 4,000 chemicals including:

·         Formaldehyde

·         cyanide

·         arsenic

·         carbon monoxide

·         methane

·         benzene

Among the chemicals identified in cigarette smoke, 11 are known human carcinogens.

Keep your family safe from these

harmful chemicals by taking the 

"Not In Mama's Kitchen"

Updated 04/20/2005