The risk for children of being passive smokers

Surely you do not know this information, but you should know that children are much more vulnerable to tobacco than adults. This is because they are much less weight than an adult in addition to having a much weaker immune system. As if this were not enough, children who regularly live with smoking parents have a very high percentage of suffering from various respiratory infections. They are therefore passive smokers who are greatly affected by tobacco smoke. If you are a smoker and have children, do not hesitate to stop this bad habit and stop smoking at home in front of the children.

THE DANGER FOR CHILDREN OF BEING PASSIVE SMOKERS

It has been shown in many studies that those minors who live with smoking parents will develop a greater number of respiratory diseases in relation to those other children who live in a smoke-free home. The problem is aggravated when there is some other baby at home and it is that having a developing immune system that is too weak will develop acute respiratory infections and serious asthma problems .

The risk of respiratory problems is so high that it has been shown that 10 out of 100 children who live with their parents’ tobacco will suffer from some other infection in the lungs. Diseases as serious and serious as bronchiolitis or laryngitis are more likely to suffer from them and suffer from them children who are habitually passive smokers because of the tobacco that their parents smoke.

Another fact that you should take into account is that it has been shown that those women who continue to smoke during the months of pregnancy can cause some other health problems in the fetus . In this way, there is a risk that the baby during its first years of life may suffer wheezing. Smoking is therefore prohibited while a woman is in full pregnancy.

HOW TO PREVENT CHILDREN FROM BEING PASSIVE SMOKERS

After being aware of the risks that tobacco smoke poses for children, it is important that you take good note of some tips that will help you prevent your children from being passive smokers:

• • Avoid exposing the minor to smoke in closed spaces such as the house, car or in another place where this smoke is concentrated.

• • If the father or mother is a regular smoker, it is advisable not to smoke inside the house and to do so outside of it. The house must always be a smoke-free space .

• When it comes to getting into the car, smoking is forbidden since it is a closed space, the smoke affects the little ones excessively.

It is important to start educating smoking parents since in many cases the respiratory problems that their children have are largely due to their passive smoking. Many parents smoke regularly in front of their children without taking into account that tobacco smoke is quite harmful to their health. If you want your children not to be passive smokers, it is good that your home from now on is a 100% smoke-free place and stop that bad habit of smoking.