Passive Smoking  Effects 

Involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke other people's cigarette smoke. Passive smoking, secondhand smoke, secondhand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke are associated with the same thing - this is involuntary inhalation of tobacco smoke. Cigarette smoke is generally defined as any one or exhaled smoke from the smoker from the cigarette tip 'tributaries' smoke. It is composed of more than 4000 kinds of chemical substances among the 40 or so are known to cause cancer, including many hydrocarbons, arsenic and polonium up.

Smokers choose inhaling harmful chemicals and carcinogens, but non-smokers are not binding. In the case of a child or infant is usually no choice, it is estimated that about 700 million children worldwide from 1.2 billion smokers in the world's population exposed to secondhand smoke.

It is now well documented, second-hand or passive smoking has a negative impact on passive smoking and the most significant when they are children. In fact, from the Group of Eight (G8) environment on children's environmental health leaders in 1997 Declaration extract, they said;

"We recognize that environmental tobacco smoke is a significant public health risk children and parents need to know about smoking around their young children at home, the risk that we agree on cooperative efforts to reduce education and public awareness of children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. "

So, what evidence is the work of the Group of Eight, why should we care? So, to review by the World Health Organization concluded that secondhand smoke is bronchitis, pneumonia, coughing and wheezing, asthma, otitis media, sudden infant death in 1998, possibly cardiovascular and neurobiological disorder one reason children. In addition, by the Royal College of Physicians in London, in a report in 1992 estimated that 17,000 under five seconds, each admitted to hospital in the UK direct result of secondhand smoke.

Hong Kong, in a report in 2001 concluded that children living in families where there are two or more smokers are 30 percent more likely to be admitted to hospital than those who live in a smoke-free house.

From 2000 and 2001 British report found that environmental tobacco smoke has adverse effects on children of any age, but also asthma is more common in smoking households. It is believed that 5,400 new cases of asthma among 1000 cases are entirely attributable to secondhand smoke each year in the UK.

Britain in another report in 2006 of the risks associated with smoking are linked sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), commonly referred to as sudden infant death threefold growth. Many other studies have found that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke directly with ear infections, meningitis, mental retardation, autism incidence increased vitamin C levels and a weak sense of smell and taste less relevant sense. In these worries, but there have also been found that childhood exposure to tobacco smoke and cancer later in life, the link between risk and general malaise. A Norwegian study found that adults who have been exposed to smoke during their childhood in their adult life working in a high level of poverty.

Research in the UK found that people generally recognize passive smoking is not conducive to children but also for adults. However, due to the increased risk of passive smoking in particular are not well known. Most people lead a chest infection and increase the risk of asthma as the most common result of secondhand smoke. Two infants environmental tobacco smoke is more common result of sudden infant death and glue ear (ear infection), but this has not been confirmed that the majority of respondents in the survey. Nevertheless, two-thirds of smokers say they would not children in the same room where a quarter of the state, they will smoke because of their knowledge of secondary smoke harm less smoking in the child's company.

In order to protect the child, there are some things that parents should do to try and minimize their exposure to tobacco smoke children:

Smokers should try just outside the smoke. If you must restrict smoking cigarettes inside a room, you can open the windows, so that there is adequate ventilation. Smokers should never smoke in the child's bedroom, absolutely can not let others smoke there. Smokers not to smoke while washing, dressing, or playing with children. Finally, smokers should not smoke in the car windows closed or open.

Some children's rights movement who believe that children exposed to cigarette smoke is a form of child abuse should be punished according to law. I tend to agree with them.