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Second-hand smoking, which is also called the voluntary smoking, is a way of smoking passively.According to the report, most of the people are passive smokers, of which, 82 percent is from family, 67 percent is from the public area and 35 percent is from the workplace. And the rate of the passive smoker is different because of the age, gender and position. There about 90 percent passive women smokers exposed to the secondhand smoke in the home.
It is reported that there are almost 72.4 percent are exposed to passive smoking in China, 38% of them suffer passive smoking every day. Smoking in the Indoor public places and workplace is very serious. According to the search, there are about 88.5 percent of people watched someone smoked in the restaurant, and 58.4 percent of people have the same experience in the office workplace with in 30 days.
There are about 37.7% people mentioned that there is no rules about fobbing smoking in there office. 31% people reported no smoking policy has carried in their office, but there are still about 23.5% people ignore the regulations. Totally, there are about 63% percent people found the smoker smoking in the office.
On May 29, 2007, China's health ministry issued the 2007 China report on tobacco control. There are 300 million smokers in China; at the same there are more than 540 passive smokers in China, which includes 180 children under the age of 15. And more than 100,000 people died of passive smoking, however, 65%o of them do not know this result from passive smoking.
There is a story about a waiter called Crowe from Canada. In the spring of 2002, he was initially diagnosed with lung cancer, which is unbelievable for her. She never smoke and she do not live together with smoker. Why she would have lung cancer? The doctor speculated that this because she's long-term exposed to secondhand smoke in her workplace. After the further diagnostic, her cancer was caused by passive smoke and there is no medicine can cure her disease.
The result shocked the water, at the same time she was very anger. More than 40 years past, she never noticed the harm from the second-hand smoke. Finally, she made insurance claim from the local WSIB. She successfully got the insurance claim and set up a sample for all of the people like her. And she becomes the first man who gets the insurance claim because of long terms of occupational exposure to tobacco.
She do not stop her foot, she began to pay attention to propagandizing the harm from passive smoking, and made a piece of advertisement for the local heath committee. She transferred her angry into the power of propaganda, hoping her experience can give the warning to the smoker, and attract the attention from the passive smoker. She insisted on this job till the last period of her life. Finally, the supporting rate of forbidden smoke in the public place has reached 89%.
The saga from Miss Crown caused a lot of attention from the public. And more and more people began pay attention to the harm from smoke, and some smoker realized their action is not only harm for the health of themselves, also from his dear families and friends. Therefore, some of them began to find some useful methods and products, such us the E-Cigarettes, smoking bars etc. to quit smoking.
According to the search, the status of smoking control is keeping decrease in the resent year, but the situation is still not optimism.
