The worse part is my father and ex-husband smoked around me and I lost almost ninety percent of hearing in my right ear and approximately fivety percent in my left ear.

The reason why I even knew I was deaf was one day I cleared my ear by shaking it with my finger to the side of face because I couldn’t hear. I had a burning pain running down the side of face like it was on fire. I went to a specialist and he looked into my ear and saw a black substance it took him three (3) days to get it out before he pulled it out he warned me that I might lose a lot of hearing because it was lying on my ear drum and it will scatch my ear drum well when he pulled it out it was black and hard. The first thing he asked me if someone smokes around me? I said yes my husband at the time he said the black was the tar and nicotine that gathered around the wax that ear did to protect the drum.
But as he said I could lose my hearing and I did because of the years of taking in the secondary smoke. I could hear when he pulled the black wax out of ear and he told me to tell him if I were going to faint I didn’t have a chance to say anything I just fainted. The reason why was that had been the first time in a very long time that I had heard anything in that ear and my brain couldn’t handle the sounds in the room.
The thing is even up to this day when anyone is smoking around me or it could be across the room my ear closes and when it opens it pops and it hurts like something I can’t express. Even if someone is smoking in a car down from my car in traffic I can’t stand it and I get very nervous and my ear closes.
This happened to me over thirty-five (35) years ago and I am still suffering from that secondary smoke that I took in that long ago.
So if you have someone smoking around you you have to get away from them or tell them not to smoke around you and that is a fact.