How Does Secondhand Smoking Affect Children

The phenomenon of smoking is common among college students. AlSwuailem, AlShehri, and Al-Sadhan (2014) stated that one in four students at King Saud University is a smoker. According to the authors, the main cause that leads to smoking is having friends smoking. Smoking is the main risk for many health problems. The World Health Organization (WHO) shows that there are currently around one billion smokers and about six million people die from smoking each year, including more than five hundred thousand people who do not smoke are affected by second-hand smoke deaths (WHO, 2015). Second-hand smoke may be present in all areas such as restaurant, office work, and private homes. Cigarette smoke has over four thousand chemicals, including more than two hundred and fifty chemicals known to be harmful and fifty carcinogenic substances. In adults, secondhand smoke causes serious respiratory illnesses such as heart disease or lung cancer. Women that smoke during pregnancy can cause low birth weight baby. Many smokers are aware of the potential risks of smoking, but these statistics in the US Recent research shows that around twenty four percent of adults continue to smoke. Especially the adolescence smokers aged 18 - 24 years old increase nearly thirty five percent. Although the number of smokers increased, seventy five percent of smokers say they want to quit smoking. The combination of methods such as counseling by

By now it is known that smoking is harmful to your body. Everyone who smokes is completely aware of this and continues to mistreat their body anyway. It takes something serious for smokers to actually take the necessary steps to quit. I chose this ad on the internet because many people who I love dearly smoke. This advertisement was made by the Child Health Foundation. It was created in Germany and published in 2007. The author is trying to achieve awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke to try and stop parents from smoking around their children or altogether. This advertisement can also affect children or anyone who smokes, whether they are a parent or not. When children understand this advertisement, it can lead them to pressure their parents to quit smoking. This may also target anyone who smokes in general because they will most likely be around a child at one time or another. The purpose of this advertisement is to show parents, kids, or anyone who smokes in general, that breathing in secondhand smoke can be deadly for infants and children. Smokers need to be mindful of

Secondhand smoke is unhealthy for everyone, especially for young children. Children are more susceptible to suffer the detrimental health effects of secondhand smoke because they breathe in more air than adults due to their size and weight. In addition, children are constantly growing and developing. During their development stage, children are more sensitive to the consequences of secondhand smoke, which is ultimately dangerous to their immune and respiratory systems. Furthermore, secondhand smoke is significantly harmful to children with asthma, which is a chronic health condition whose symptoms include coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Children, both with and without asthma, are powerless to protect themselves from the dangers of secondhand smoke, so we the adults have to protect them.

According to the Acheson Report (Acheson, 1988), public health is illustrated as the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting healthy lifestyles through the organised community efforts. It emphasises on investigating and diagnosing health issues in order to protect people’s health and make the environment healthy for individuals to live (Detels et al., 2015). Smoking is strongly associated with public health because being one of the most leading causes of death around the world; it generates detrimental consequences to the health of the public. It creates physical and psychological addiction to tobacco leading to increased health risks and chronic diseases. As a result, due to its disastrous chemicals, it can also shorten the life span of the

Smoking is established as a recognized cause of cancer, lung disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke(US Public Health Service,1964,Doll R 1976,1994, US Department of Health and Human Services,1989).it is considered to be the single most important avoidable cause of premature morbidity and mortality in the world. WHO has estimated that there are about 1100 million smokers worldwide; this represents about one-third of the global population aged over 15 years (WHO,1997). About 73% of these smokers (700 million males, 100 million females) are in developing countries; in industrialized countries there are 200 million male smokers and 100 million female smokers. In the over 15-year-old population of developing countries, it is estimated that about 48% of males and 7% of females are smokers. The corresponding figures for industrialized countries are 42% for males and 24% for females (WHO,1997).

Tobacco users seem to forget that the actions don’t only affect them but also people around them. They might have decided that they don5t view the dangers of tobacco use as important but people around them that decided not to risk their lives are affected by their actions through secondhand smoking. Secondhand smoking is a threat to the public’s physical,

It is demonstrated that smoking cigarettes cause lots of health problems not just for those who smoke them, but also for secondhand smokers. To illustrate1, the three main problems that the tobacco causes are heart disease, cancer, and problems for new-borns. According to CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) one from each three person in the world are smokers -that is 1.300 millions of people. And according to the World Health Organization, 6 millions of people die every year, from where 600,000 are not smokers who just are near people who is smoking. For that reason, the production and sale of cigarettes should be banned.

This paper will discuss the effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) or known as Second Hand Smoke (SHM) among children. In addition, it will focuses on the how ETS becomes a problem for Children in American household as well as in other well developed nations. It will describe the effects that has among children living in contaminated environment by Second Hand Smoke. One of the health effects can be Asthma, which is provoked by their parents who smoke in their vicinity. Furthermore, there will be a discussion where as a public health practitioner trying to improve the health of these children and to educate their parents to lessen their cigarette consumption near children.

The negative impact of second hand smoke on human health are known worldwide. It is the main cause of asthma, heart disease and lung cancer. Now more than ever, there are evidence to show and supports research about the risks involved when human is exposed to second hand smoke. It is considered the main source of toxicant exposure by inhalation in nonsmokers. Despite recent laws, smoking in public places is not uncommon. On a whole, children who are exposed to this type of smoking shows signs of deterioration of lung function, more days of restricted activity, more pulmonary infections, more days in bed, more absences from school and more hospitalization than children living in nonsmoking homes .

Tobacco is one of the prominent sources known to trigger cancer, respiratory, cardiovascular diseases and death internationally. Involuntary exposure to a combination of cigarette smoke and the exhaled smoke from smokers is considered as Second-hand smoke (SHS), which is inhaled by everyone and is also responsible to cause harmful effects on health. Tobacco smoke constitutes thousands of toxic chemicals, even though it is a known fact that some of these toxic chemicals can cause cancer, people smoke anyway. Exposure to second-hand smoke is a major concern in public places and at home since it can cause various health issues in infants, children, and adults.

Consequently, teenagers who decide to smoke with the knowledge of their disease are at a high risk. If they’re surrounded by parents who smoke either mother or father including others “exposed to second-hand smoke have a high risk of Asthma prevalence” as well. Rumors have been spread saying that “weed isn’t bad for you” or “hookah doesn’t affect your lungs, you’re just inhaling vapor” which is wrong because any substance inhaled or smoked damages the lungs.

We have laws that protect minors from physical abuse, but isn’t the damage from secondhand smoking also considered physical abuse?

Cigar contains 4000 toxic chemicals to body, and some are even cancer causing agents. (1) Smoking cigar does not only affect the smoker but also others by secondary smoking, especially to children and infants. Secondary smoking could negatively impact children’s body system. NHS is one of the biggest and famous website in health field in the UK. It contains many health information and provide the different types of services which patients would like to choose and receive from clinics. It developed the campaign called smokefree. The campaign is to encourage smokers to quit smoking for protecting their children from secondary smoking via PSA. (1)

Cigarette consumption is heavily prevalent in Indonesian society and culture. Indonesia ranks as the fifth largest market for tobacco in the world and remains as the only member of the Southeast Asian nations who has not ratified the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Unfortunately, this has led to a high tobacco prevalence among Indonesian youth. Data from the Indonesia Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2014 reported that one in five students were tobacco users. (World Health Organization) Many begin smoking habits at a young age and later suffer from tobacco addiction. The impact on youth is drastic upon their health and socioeconomic status.

Kids do understand that smoking is dangerous, but many of them try it anyway out of curiosity, low self-esteem, peer pressure, the need to establish their own independent identities, and to rebel against their parents. (Rodrigo-Cuenca, M., Philippine Star, p. E-1, August 5, 2003)