Smoking_Around_Children

Smoking Around Children According to the American Heart Association, there are an estimated 49 million adult men and women that are smokers today in the United States. These people are at high risk and have the knowledge that the act of smoking cigarettes may cause different types of cancers, may develop heart disease, cause high blood pressure, and cause strokes to name a few. Although, what one may not realize is the harmful effects that the cigarette smoke may have on another individual that does not smoke. Passive or second-hand smoke is worse than the actual act of smoking. The chemicals from the tobacco smoke after being inhaled and then exhaled are very poisonous. Passive or second-hand smoke is especially harmful to children. More than 10 million children are still being put in jeopardy to exposure of cigarette smoke in their homes everyday, despite study after study showing how dangerous it is to their health (http://ash.org/kids/parents.html ). The effects on children’s health due to cigarette smoke are numerous and can become more severe with time. Children that are open to the elements of cigarette smoke tend to suffer excessive and unnecessary colds, flues, bronchitis, pneumonia, children, smoke, smoking, being, exposure, second-hand, one, exposed, cigarette, around, passive, parents, child, risk, harmful, cause, avoid, way, sure, effects, due, different, dangers, very, unborn, taken, smokers, make, limited, high, chemicals, birth, another, whom, while