How does the child suffer if the parents smoke?
Harmful effects of passive smoking or second-hand smoke include danger to the foetus if the mother smokes; danger to the child later in life; and the trauma of sickness and death of parents who smoke. It is estimated that almost half of the worlds children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke, particularly at home. On World Cancer Day, parents were given the following message: Second-hand smoke is a health hazard for you and your family. There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke. Give your child a smoke-free childhood. Children whose parents smoke at home or in the car are exposed to around 4,800 harmful chemicals, of which 69 can cause cancer. Such children are more prone to asthma, pneumonia, middle-ear infections, persistent colds and tuberculosis than children who are not exposed. Infants exposed to parental smoking have a higher risk of succumbing to a tragic condition called sudden infant death syndrome too. Research by Dr Wailoo and his colleagues from the Univers
