environmental tobacco smoke

Definition / meaning of 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 ETS and secondhand smoke.

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The Web site of the National Cancer Institute (http://www.cancer.gov/)

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