If you breathe the exhaled smoke from smokers and their lit cigarettes, regardless of whether or not you
smoke tobacco, you become a secondhand smoker. When exposed to tobacco smoke for over one hour,
a secondhand smoker will have inhaled the equivalent of 2 or 3 cigarettes. Cigarette smoke kills 53,000
non-smokers in the United States each year, and children are the most susceptible. When exposed to
cigarette smoke, children can develop ear infections, asthma, bronchitis, and even pneumonia.
Cigarette smoke is a serious problem.