Smokers at risk from their own 'second-hand' smoke

Friday, January 29, 2010 - 23:28 in Health & Medicine

It is well known that smokers damage their health by directly inhaling cigarette smoke. Now, research has shown that they are at additional risk from breathing environmental tobacco smoke, contrary to the prevailing assumption that such risks would be negligible in comparison to those incurred by actually smoking.

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