How to Use secondhand smoke in a Sentence

secondhand smoke

noun
Definition of secondhand smokenext
  • People who smoke pose a risk to those nearby in the form of secondhand smoke.
    — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • There was a case in Broward County in 2005 where the judge ruled that secondhand smoke was a nuisance and ordered the smoker to stop.
    — Gary M. Singer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 June 2018
  • In the process of developing the bill, the girls did research on secondhand smoke and presented it to the council.
    — Allison Klein, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • What happened to all the concern about secondhand smoke that raged in the run-up to barring smoking in public places?
    — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 July 2017
  • Over most of that time, the boats were basically floating dive bars, full of secondhand smoke and cheap beer.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2021
  • The Marlboro man is getting hooked on secondhand smoke.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Your eyes are no exception, and being exposed to smoke or secondhand smoke can make dry eye worse, the NEI says.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Scientists have warned about the dangers of secondhand smoke for decades.
    — Erica Tennenhouse, Science | AAAS, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Then there are women who manage to quit, but live in households where they are still exposed to secondhand smoke.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 19 Dec. 2017
  • People who live with smokers also are at a greater risk of death, because of secondhand smoke.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Enactment of the ban followed 13 years of work by a coalition to educate the public on the dangers of secondhand smoke.
    — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile, Springer worries that people might come to the wrong conclusion — that the absence of research means the secondhand smoke is OK.
    — Marissa Ortega-Welch, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In June, Gil paid about $650 to hire a secondhand smoke consultant to assess nicotine levels in her home.
    — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • She had been exposed to very little secondhand smoke during her life.
    — Chad Estes, idahostatesman, 22 Oct. 2016
  • That's led to a decrease in complications caused by secondhand smoke, as well.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The minty smell of the cigarettes whose secondhand smoke gave him childhood asthma, the smell of the cigarettes that cut his grandmother’s life short.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • There is not a form of ventilation that can remove secondhand smoke from air.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Benson doesn’t smoke, but she was exposed to secondhand smoke from her husband and is a cancer survivor.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • One recent study showed that breathing secondhand smoke from a vape may make asthma symptoms worse.
    — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Do not smoke, vape, or use tobacco or nicotine products, and avoid secondhand smoke.
    — Cathy Nelson, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024
  • That primarily is from secondhand smoke from a spouse or a family from long-term, parents that smoked around their kids.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Nearly 30 states have laws that address secondhand smoke.
    — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke increase their lung cancer risk by 20% to 30%.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In a study sure to kill the buzz at many a party, researchers at UC Berkeley say bongs may create more secondhand smoke than tobacco cigarettes.
    — Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The policy, in place for the first time for last year's fair, eliminates the risk of exposure to secondhand smoke in all fenced-in common areas of the fairgrounds and within 40 feet of the main gated entrances.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Until then, states and their residents will continue to have no refuge from their neighbors’ secondhand smoke.
    — Steven Barrett, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Then came discoveries about the danger of secondhand smoke.
    — William Wan, ajc, 10 May 2018
  • The City Council had cited complaints from residents about secondhand smoke on sidewalks and in parking lots.
    — Priscella Vega, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Advocates of Breathe Easy have cited public health data on the impacts of secondhand smoke in pushing for smoking bans.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Exposure to secondhand smoke, air pollution, asbestos, diesel exhaust, and radon, a radioactive gas with no smell or color that's typically found in rocks, soil and burning coal and fossil fuels, can also cause lung cancer, according to the ACS.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024

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