Facts on Secondhand Smoke – Health Effects on Children

Second hand smoke affects the health of children and anyone near someone who smokes cigarette. And we have found the facts on secondhand smoke from the CDC website as we outline them for you below:

“Secondhand smoke is a mixture of gases and fine particles that includes—

Smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, or pipe tip
Smoke that has been exhaled or breathed out by the person or people smoking
More than 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and about 70 that can cause cancer.

Most exposure to secondhand smoke occurs in homes and workplaces. Secondhand smoke exposure also continues to occur in public places such as restaurants, bars, and casinos and in private vehicles.

Health Effects on Children:

In children, secondhand smoke causes the following:

Ear infectionsMore frequent and severe asthma attacksRespiratory symptoms (e.g., coughing, sneezing, shortness of breath)
Respiratory infections (i.e., bronchitis, pneumonia)
A greater risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

In children aged 18 months or younger, secondhand smoke exposure is responsible for an estimated 150,000–300,000 new cases of bronchitis and pneumonia annually, and approximately 7,500–15,000 hospitalizations annually in the United States.”

Smoking Cessation Programs – Quit Lines

Smoking cessation programs have been studied and implemented by government agencies to help the population stop smoking. Both the Federal and States government have spent huge amount of dollars for health care due to the many health effects of smoking. Perusing the net we’ve found one article discussing one such program called Quit Lines below:

Research shows that the best way for people to quit smoking is through evidence-based smoking cessation technologies and programs. Such services include, among others, prescription drugs, insurance programs, nicotine over-the-counter products, and quit lines. Smokers who take part in cessation programs are more likely to successfully quit smoking—defined as abstinence for six months or more—than those who attempt quitting on their own.

A Promising Approach: Quit Lines

One type of cessation program that has been found to be effective is the telephone quit line. For many years, state and local telephone quit lines have helped people who have called for assistance in their efforts to quit smoking. In particular, national quit line networks have been found to be effective; they have shown a higher rate of smoking abstinence by as much as 30 to 50 percent more than the rate achieved under control conditions.

For more information about smoking cessation programs go here or at this website: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/tobacco/smokingcessation/tobacco_051286

5 Bad Facts About Smoking

Many bad facts about smoking has been mentioned via press and or media including tobacco manufacturers themselves but people don’t listen. They continue to smoke knowing that the habit of smoking is bad for their health and even the health of people around them. We have compiled 5 of this bad fact about smoking from an article on the net below:

1. Scientists say that smokers lose 14 years of their life due to smoking.

2. After smoke is inhaled, nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds and is found in every part of the body.

3. Urea that is a major component of urine is added to flavor the cigarettes.

4. Smokers normally smoke after having a meal; because they think that it allows food to digest easily but in fact the body’s priority moves to protecting blood cells other than digesting food.

5. Around 25% of the cigarettes are sold around the world are smuggled

Our source here have listed 5 more bad facts about smoking.

Top 3 Side Effects of Smoking

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Smoking is really awful and comes with several harmful side effects. We have listed the top 3 from our source from the net below.

HARMS OUR HEALTH. The foremost reason why smoking is injurious is- it copiously harms our health. It is often said “If health is lost everything is lost” . The smoker should be made well versed with the fact that smoking adversely affects his/her health. If we particularly talk about cigarette, it contains nicotine and carbon monoxide which is considered to be the most dangerous chemicals which contribute in destroying the whole body of the person.

Nicotine and carbon monoxide tend to increase the blood pressure and heart rate of the person which in turn causes heart attacks. Smoking also causes the narrowing of the blood vessels of the person which are responsible for blood flow in the body, which leads to cancer.

Smoking even slows down the blood flow, thereby cutting the oxygen to reach each and every part of the body. 50% of the smokers die due to lung cancer. Smokers often suffer with a disease named bronchitis. There are innumerable ill effects. Rather than continuing smoking why don’t people quit?? They think they are getting rid of their stress, but they are wrong…!!!

REDUCES OUR LIFE SPAN. Every time you light up your cigarette remember “you are reducing your life each time by 11 minutes”. So “BEWARE” before lighting it up. Altogether if we just study the life span of a smoke addicted person, he reduces his life span by 10 years. Just think…!!! What about his family members, his small little kids, his parents and his near and dear ones. Is he not aware ?? or whether he is doing it deliberately?? Is there anyone who could help him quitting such hazardous materials??

CHEMICALS FROM MOTHERS CA.N BE PASSED ON TO SMALL BABIES. Mothers of infants who smoke regularly is also very harmful for the little babies who have not yet even seen this outside world. Moreover, if a women is pregnant then she should avoid taking such things.Even the second hand effects small babies.

While we have listed the top 3 side effects of smoking you can find out more from this website: http://omgtoptens.com/

Bad Facts About Smoking

30 Fascinating Cigarette Smoking Facts – Listverse

http://listverse.com/2009/01/11/30-fascinating-cigarette-smoking-facts/

Jan 11, 2009 … The world’s view on smoking cigarettes has changed dramatically over the last century. … Below is a list of interesting facts about cigarettes. 1 …

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Smoking Rate Higher Among Adults With Mental Illness, CDC Finds

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/

Statistics show smoking by the mentally ill is a “very serious health issue that needs more attention” and should prompt mental health facilities to ban the habit, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We need to do … Eletta Hansen explains some facts about smoking, and discusses if your body gets healthier after you quit smoking. Contribute to this …. I feel lucky to be a smoker and who said it is bad? Only God knows …

Everything You Need to Know About Smoking
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If you smoke, you get less sleep and a “lower quality of rest” than non-smokers do, according to today’s Daily Mail. Why British Asian Women Smoke. Village Where Nobody Smokes. At long last those idiot smokers will finally get the message and drop their filthy habits once and for all.

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Health Effects on Children:

Everyone’s affected by passive smoke. For more facts on secondhand smoke go to our source here.

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