"SAVE CHILD FROM SMOKE" : MAKE A SMOKE-FEEE HOMES AND SMOKE-REE ZONES, DON'T SMOKE AROUND CHILDREN AND PREGNANT MOTHER'S
Secondhand smoke, also know as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. It is involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers, lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished and can cause or exacerbate a wide range of adverse health effects in children, including SIDS (Sudden Death Infant Syndrome), cancer, respiratory infections, ear infection and asthma.
Children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in Indonesia may be 43 Million.Around one-third of smokers - million people continue to smoke near children.Smoking by parents is the principal determinant of children’s exposure to secondhand smoke.
Many children under the age of five are admitted to hospital every year with illnesses resulting possible from passive smoking.
A poll for SmokeFree found that only 3% of parents knew that cot death could result from passive smoking and only 1% identified glue ear as an outcome. Children have the right to be protected from passive smoking.Parents must recognise that passive smoking causes ill-health in children and that they have a responsibility not to inflict harm on their children.
As knowledge of the impact of passive smoking increases, so demand for smoke-free environments rises. When smoke-free public places are the norm, there is a greater public acceptance of the need to restrict smoking in the home.
Governments have a duty to inform the public of the hazards of breathing in other people’s tobacco smoke and adults should act on that advice to protect the health of children. Smoking bans in workplaces do not cause displacement smoking in the home.
Secondhand smoke can cause harm in many ways.
- an estimated 35,000 deaths from heart disease in non-smokers who live with smokers
- about 3,000 lung cancer deaths in non-smoking adults
- other breathing problems in non-smokers, including coughing, mucus, chest discomfort, and reduced lung function
- 150,000 to 300,000 lung infections (such as pneumonia and bronchitis) in children younger than 18 months of age, which result in 7,500 to 15,000 hospitalizations annually
- increases in the number and severity of asthma attacks in about 200,000 to 1 million children who have asthma
- more than 750,000 middle ear infections in children
- Pregnant women exposed to secondhand smoke are also at increased risk of having low birth weight babies.
- Secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and in adults who do not smoke.
- Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more severe asthma. Smoking by parents causes breathing (respiratory) symptoms and slows lung growth in their children.
- Secondhand smoke immediately affects the heart and blood circulation in a harmful way. Over a longer time it also causes heart disease and lung cancer.
- The scientific evidence shows that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
- Many millions of Americans, both children and adults, are still exposed to secondhand smoke in their homes and workplaces despite a great deal of progress in tobacco control.
- The only way to fully protect non-smokers from exposure to secondhand smoke indoors is to prevent all smoking in that indoor space or building. Separating smokers from non-smokers, cleaning the air, and ventilating buildings cannot keep non-smokers from being exposed to secondhand smoke.
"SAVE OUR CHILDRENS FROM SMOKE"
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- SAVE SECONDHAND SMOKE FOR CHILDREN
- PROTECT CHILDREN : DON"T MAKE THEM BREATHE YOUR SMOKE
- Make a smoke-free homes and smoke-free zones for all children
- SAVE SMOKE FOR YOUR CHILDREN IN PREGNANT
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