An adult non-smoker in a smoke filled room for one hour will inhale as much cancer-causing materials as a smoker would after inhaling up to 30 cigarettes according to a paper presented at a Joint American-Canadian Chemical Society conference.

8. Smoking is harmful to a developing fetus in a pregnant mother. No pregnant woman should smoke. A non-smoking pregnant woman should never allow herself to be exposed to the smoke of her spouse or others. Side stream smoke may be even more hazardous to a pregnant woman than if she smoked herself.

9. Recent studies show that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or Crib Death is related to smoking. 70% of the mothers of SIDS cases smoked during pregnancy. Of the 30% who didn't, a great majority were exposed to the side stream smoke of their husbands or others in their daily environment.

10. Up to 50,000 non-smoking Americans will have their lives shortened this year because they regularly inhaled side stream smoke. Over 5,000 will die of lung cancer alone. The rest will die of chronic lung disease, hypertension, heart disease and other ailments and terminal diseases caused by smoke to which these innocent people and children are being exposed.

11. The EPA states that "cigarette smoke is the most dangerous airborne pollutant because it contains radioactive particles which cause cancer." The lethal effects of side stream smoke has been estimated (EPA) at 90 times greater than Asbestos.

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