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A study shows that children exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke are more prone to a certain strain of Streptococcal bacterial infection than those not exposed.
 
Second hand smoke is also a suspected cause of lung cancer among non-smokers, along with asbestos, air pollution, and radon exposure.

Nonsmokers with cancer baffle experts

The State - 3/21/2006 3:15 AM

There are about 180,000 cases of lung cancer a year and 150,000 deaths, said Dr. Peter B. Bach, pulmonologist and epidemiologist at Sloan-Kettering in New York. If 80 percent or so stem from smoking, that leaves about 36,000 cases and 30,000 deaths a year that are not related to smoking.
 
"That puts nonsmoking-related lung cancer in the same league with colorectal, prostate and breast cancer,” Bach said. "If we wiped out smoking, lung cancer would still be the No. 3 cancer kille
 
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