environmental tobacco smoke

environmental tobacco smoke
Smoke that comes from the burning of a tobacco product and smoke that is exhaled by smokers. Inhaling environmental tobacco smoke is called involuntary or passive smoking. Also called secondhand smoke and ETS.

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