According to an American Cancer Society report published on Thursday childhood exposure to secondhand smoke can be linked to various kinds of lung disease decades later. This comes as no surprise as we have been repeatedly warning people of the dangers of secondhand smoke. To come to this conclusion researchers for 22 years have been following more than 70000 adults who have never smoked. At the beginning of the study they were asked whether they lived in a household with a smoker while they were children. Those who did were 31 percent more likely to die of chronic obstructive pulmonary