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Despite falling smoking rates, 58 million nonsmokers in the United States, including 15 million children ages 3 to 11 years, are still exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke. Recent research shows that although secondhand smoke exposure rates in 2011–2012 had dropped for all population groups, some groups continue to be exposed at much higher rates than others. In addition to children, these include Black nonsmokers, people who live below the poverty level, and those who rent housing. Among all nonsmokers in the United States, 1 in 4 is exposed to secondhand smoke.
Secondhand smoke contains dangerous chemicals that are known to cause heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer in adults and ear infections, respiratory infections, asthma attacks, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in infants and children. Since 1964, two and a half million nonsmokers have died from diseases caused by exposure to secondhand smoke; every year, secondhand smoke kills 41,000 adult nonsmokers from heart disease and lung cancer and 400 babies from SIDS.
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