CHILDREN and Passive Smoking Effects...

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PASSIVE Smoking means breathing in other people's tobacco smoke.

Second-hand smoke is a Danger to everyone, but Children, Pregnant women and the partners of people who smoke are Most Vulnerable.

CHILDREN are particularly Vulnerable to the effects of secondhand smoke because they are STILL Developing Physically, have Higher breathing rates than adults, and have Little Control over their Indoor environments. Children exposed to high doses of secondhand smoke, such as those whose mothers smoke, run the Greatest relative risk of experiencing Damaging Health Effects.

PASSIVE Smoking Increases:

- the Risk of Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS or cot death)

- Middle Ear Disease

- Asthma

- Respiratory Illnesses (pneumonia and bronchitis)

- Lung cancer

- Coronary Heart Disease.

Infants and Children Younger than 6 who are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke are at Increased (!) risk of all above mentioned.

Please CARE for your Children! 

~DI