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Smoking is associated with more than 50 different diseases and disorders – many fatal. It has been know that smoking causes lung cancer since the 1950s. Half of all people who continue to smoke will be killed by it - losing an average of 16 years of life.
Breathing other people's smoke is known as passive, involuntary or secondhand smoking (SHS). It can also be called ‘environmental tobacco smoke’.
There are many things that you can do to help ASH achieve its goals. This section shows you how to support our latest campaign and help make a difference.
The Tobacco industry for a long time denied that smoking was harmful. Today the industry still continues to try to muddy the waters around the harm caused by secondhand smoke exposure and perpetrate myths that smoking bans will result in job losses and pub closures.
