Passive smoking has always been considered equally dangerous, and a new study conducted in USA shows that non smokers who are married to smokers are at higher risk for experiencing a stroke. Maria Glymour, assistant professor at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, said that this adds to the growing evidence that second hand smoking is bad.

 

Maria added that the study will help people avoiding smoking for at least now they will care other half and his or her health. The study was done on more than 16,000 married persons of the age of 50. The attention was given to their smoking habits, stroke incidences over an average of about nine years between 1992 and 2006.

 

The study analyzed that nonsmokers married to a current smokers were found to have a 42 percent increased risk for stroke. On the other hand, the person married to spouses who had never smoked had comparatively good heart record. Interestingly, ex-smokers married to a current smoker had higher risks of heart stroke, reveals the study.

 

Maria, opining on the study-conclusion said that this study provides further valuable evidence of the general dangers of secondhand smoke, and, in particular, the great and often over-looked danger of heart disease. The study shows that for common good of spouse a minimum to establish smoke-free zones in the home, or no smoke in the home at all is essential.