How to Use secondhand smoke in a Sentence

secondhand smoke

noun
  • Even secondhand smoke can lead to cancers such as that of the lung.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Avoid exposure to secondhand smoke at all costs, too.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 20 Nov. 2025
  • She had been exposed to very little secondhand smoke during her life.
    — Chad Estes, idahostatesman, 22 Oct. 2016
  • The story of secondhand smoke shows how reformers could build it.
    — David Zipper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Scientists have warned about the dangers of secondhand smoke for decades.
    — Erica Tennenhouse, Science | AAAS, 4 Mar. 2020
  • There is not a form of ventilation that can remove secondhand smoke from air.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 26 Dec. 2019
  • People who live with smokers also are at a greater risk of death, because of secondhand smoke.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • One recent study showed that breathing secondhand smoke from a vape may make asthma symptoms worse.
    — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 4 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Do not smoke, vape, or use tobacco or nicotine products, and avoid secondhand smoke.
    — Cathy Nelson, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024
  • That's led to a decrease in complications caused by secondhand smoke, as well.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2020
  • In multiunit dwellings, secondhand smoke can seep in from many places, including vents and cracks in walls or floors.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Some who are concerned with the health component call the law a step backward, given the risks of secondhand smoke.
    — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • So secondhand smoke always seemed positive to me.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2026
  • There are no public health campaigns warning against the dangers of smoking or secondhand smoke.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Cigarettes kill 1 in 2 users who don’t quit and harm others nearby through secondhand smoke.
    — Ailsa R Butler, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • This includes avoiding secondhand smoke as much as possible.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Until then, states and their residents will continue to have no refuge from their neighbors’ secondhand smoke.
    — Steven Barrett, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • For example, dry air, smoking, or exposure to secondhand smoke often lead to a scratchy throat and hoarseness.
    — Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 12 May 2025
  • Here, accusing her of failing to protect casino workers from the dangers of secondhand smoke.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Forty years ago, the intuitive outrage of secondhand smoke was an eye-opener for many Americans.
    — David Zipper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke increase their lung cancer risk by 20% to 30%.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 20 Mar. 2023

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