Question

what is the difference between a passive smoker and an active smoker

Answer 1

Answer:

person who's smoking is the active smoker

and person who's standing right next to a smoking person is passive smoker

Answer 2

Answer:

Passive smoker: Passive smoking is the inhalation of smoke, called secondhand smoke (SHS), or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), by persons other than the intended "active" smoker. It occurs when tobacco smoke enters an environment, causing its inhalation by people within that environment.Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke causes disease, disability, and death. The health risks of secondhand smoke are a matter of scientific consensus. These risks have been a major motivation for smoke-free laws in workplaces and indoor public places, including restaurants, bars and night clubs, as well as some open public spaces.

Concerns around secondhand smoke have played a central role in the debate over the harms and regulation of tobacco products. Since the early 1970s, the tobacco industry has viewed public concern over secondhand smoke as a serious threat to its business interests. Harm to bystanders was perceived as a motivator for stricter regulation of tobacco products. Despite the industry's awareness of the harms of secondhand smoke as early as the 1980s, the tobacco industry coordinated a scientific controversy with the purpose of stopping regulation of their products.

Active smoker: The smoke coming out from the cigarette tip is more dangerous than

the inhaled smoke. The smoke that passes through the filter of the

cigarette is less harmful because some of the carbon particles are

deposited in the filter of the cigarette or the tobacco in the cigarette.

When the smoke is inhaled, most of the carbon will get deposited in the

alveoli. This can be demonstrated by blowing the smoke forcefully against

the finger nail. You take the smoke in mouth and blow it against the

finger nail and you can see the formation of a dark spot. Next you take

the smoke into your lungs and then blow it against the finger nail. This

time it will fail to produce a stain or spot on your nail.

There is a general belief that the passive smoker is affected more than

the active smoker because he inhales the smoke coming from the cigarette

tip. This is not true. Because the active smoker inhales both smokes;

passing thorough the filter and the tip of the cigarette, where as the

passive smoker inhales the smoke from the cigarette tip and also the

carbon free smoke released from the lung of the smoker. Since the nose of

the active smoker is nearer to the tip of the cigarette that he is

smoking, he should get more direct smoke from cigarette tip than the

passive smokers. So the belief that “the passive smoker is affected more”

is meaningless.