What are some interesting facts about second hand smoking that many people don really know about?
The impact of second-hand smoke on kids health Second-hand smoke (which is sometimes called environmental tobacco smoke or ETS) contains toxic substances, over 40 of which cause cancer. Some of these substances are in stronger concentrations in second-hand smoke than they are in the smoke that goes directly into smokers’ lungs. ETS is causally linked with a number of adverse health effects in children (under 18), including: lower respiratory tract infections (i.e. croup, bronchitis and pneumonia) increased fluid in the middle ear upper respiratory tract irritation reduced lung function additional episodes of asthma increased severity of asthmatic symptoms in children reduced oxygen flow to tissues, comparable to children with anemia, cyanotic heart disease or chronic lung disease †ETS is also associated with: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) acute middle ear infections (otitis media) tonsillectomy meningococcal infections cancers and leukemias in childhood slower growth adverse neu
