*The effects of passive smoking on children are very dramatic. 70% of children living in the United States have at least one adult smoker in their home. The rate of passive smoking among children in our country is around 75%. Every year, 1500 children between the ages of 0-5 die because their parents smoke. Children whose parents smoke are exposed to the harmful substances in cigarettes as if they themselves smoked 3-70 packs of cigarettes a year.
People who do not smoke may be affected by the smoke that penetrates the smoker's hair, skin and clothes, even if they are not smoking next to them. When you smoke in one room of the house, cigarette smoke spreads throughout the house within minutes. It permeates all surfaces such as carpets, walls and furniture, and spreads back into the air within days.
*Exposure to passive cigarette smoke in the womb before birth negatively affects the baby's health, like active smoking. The risk of giving birth to a low birth weight baby is 2 times higher in pregnant women who do not smoke and are exposed to secondhand smoke for 7 hours or more a day.
*Exposure to cigarette smoke is one of the known preventable causes of sudden infant death syndrome.
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*Respiratory diseases are as high as 70% in children whose both parents smoke.
*Asthma is seen in approximately fifteen percent of children in our country. There are many studies showing that exposure to cigarette smoke in the womb and after birth affects the development of asthma in babies and children. The risk of developing asthma in babies of mothers who smoke during pregnancy is 4 times higher in the first year.
*Exposure to the smoke of parents' cigarettes increases both the frequency and severity of childhood asthma. It has been determined that children with asthma who live in homes where smoking has attacks more often and go to the emergency room.
In addition, studies have found that children whose families smoke have a higher risk of allergies, such as eczema, urticaria (hives), and food allergies. It has been stated that allergic findings are 4 times more common.
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