Nearly twenty percent of all people use tobacco, and millions of non-smokers get sick from breathing the smoke.

全世界的人口有近20%吸烟，以及数百万非吸烟者因这些烟雾而生病。

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The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke.

那位女孩吸入烟雾后窒息而亡。

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Breathing secondhand smoke for a short time can irritate your lungs and reduce the amount of oxygen in your blood.

短时间里吸收二手烟会刺激你的肺部，并减少血液中的氧气量。

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Nonsmokers are also affected. Thousands in the United States die each year from heart disease and lung cancer from breathing other people's tobacco smoke.

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But the most common cause is long-term smoking or years of breathing other people's smoke.

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The study found the girls were breathing in more tobacco smoke than the boys.

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We didn't know what to do, and there was a problem with us breathing because the smoke was too much.

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Overall, the researchers found, breathing secondhand smoke in private social settings nearly tripled the risk of being diagnosed with sinusitis, while breathing it at work more than doubled the risk.

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The woman has been treated in hospital for the effects of breathing in smoke.

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