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A medical study reported that passive smoking increases the risk of stroke injury non-smokers.
The U.S. researchers from the Faculty of Public Health at Harvard University in Boston and Columbia University, New York, that the marriage of a smoker increases the risk of stroke by 42% among those never smoked compared with married couples from people who have never smoked.
The study included 16 225 people were in the fifty years of age did not become infected by a stroke, and were followed for nine years on average.
The results showed that percentage rises to 72% for former smokers married to smokers.
The researchers stressed that quitting smoking improves the health of the smoker and the health of residents with him, arguing that there is growing evidence of a link to several health problems, passive smoking.
A previous study indicated that passive smoking increases the risk of stroke, but the research team pointed out that the risk of stroke has been studied in greater depth between smokers and passive smokers not.
And people who breathe in secondhand smoke, smoking also are more likely to develop lung cancer and cancer of the sinuses and respiratory infections, heart disease and other diseases compared with non-exposed to smoking.

 Reuters