Abstract:Introduction: The world health organization (WHO) recognizes smoking as a chronic and epidemic disease encouraged through personal experiences and/or public advertisements, and is considered to be the single largest preventable cause of illness and early death worldwide. The inhalation of smoke resulting from the burning of derivatives of all types of tobacco, by non-smoker, constitutes the so-called secondhand tobacco smoke. It is the third avoidable cause of death in the world, after active smoking and alcoh… Show more
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