Topics
Our Earth and Our Solar System
Motions of the Earth
The Earth and Its Living World
Environmental Balance
Family Values
Rules Are for Everyone
Let Us Solve Our Own Problems
Public Facilities and My School
Maps - Our Companions
Getting to Know India
Our Home and Environment
Food for All
Methods of Preserving Food
Transport
Communication and Mass Media
Water
Clothes - Our Necessity
The Environment and Us
- Deforestation and Its Causes
- Consequences of Deforestation
- Pollution and Its Types
- Water Pollution and Its Causes
- Air Pollution and Its Causes
- Soil Pollution and its Causes
- Environmental Balance
- Our Needs and the Environment
- Global Efforts for Protection of the Environment
- Efforts to Maintain Biodiversity
- Devrais - a Boon for All Living Creatures!
Constituents of Food
Our Emotional World
Busy at Work - Our Internal Organs
Growth and Personality Development
Infectious Diseases and How to Prevent Them
Substances, Objects and Energy
Community Health and Hygiene
- The effects of smoking
- Passive Smoking
The Effects of Smoking
- Smoking over a long time allows toxic substances to collect in the respiratory tract (the parts of the body that help us breathe).
- The air that enters the lungs is not properly cleaned, and the impurities start to collect in the lungs.
- This reduces the efficiency of the lungs and makes it harder for them to work properly. The chance of getting lung diseases increases.
- Solid particles from tobacco smoke form a sticky layer inside the alveoli (tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen is absorbed).
- Smoking reduces oxygen going into the body, making it harder to breathe. Toxic substances from tobacco also enter the alveoli, causing damage.
- Smoking can lead to serious respiratory diseases, including dangerous conditions like lung cancer.
Passive Smoking:
- Passive smoking happens when we breathe in smoke from others who are smoking around us, even if we don’t smoke ourselves.
- Second-hand smoke can still harm our lungs and health, just like actual smoking.
- Passive smoking can cause the same lung problems and diseases as direct smoking, such as breathing difficulties and lung diseases.
- To protect everyone, especially non-smokers, there is now a ban on smoking in public places like parks, restaurants, and buses.
- This helps make sure that people are not forced to breathe in harmful smoke from others around them.
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