India, June 5 -- Everyone knows about the widespread risks of smoking, slowly chipping away at your health and pushing you closer to chronic, potentially fatal ailments with each passing day. But did you know that passive smoking, or simply being close to someone who's smoking, can also adversely affect your health?

It's more than just an unpleasant smell that makes you wrinkle your nose; passive smoking can also increase health risks, with the added bummer of not even lighting a cigarette yourself - you are suffering for someone else's bad habit.

HT Lifestyle reached out to experts who unpacked how secondhand smoke harms health, discussing vulnerable groups like asthma patients, lesser-known effects, and finally, how to cut back on smo...