Passive Smoking and Children’s Health

Passive Smoking And Children’s Health

The impacts of passive smoking will not disappear unless everyone in the world does not smoke. Many people hold the view that the adverse impacts on active smokers are more than passive smokers and therefore people often give enough tolerance to active smoking. However, there is no safe passive smoke exposure. Passive smoking causes more than 600,000 deaths every year, one third of which are children.

Children’s health is under threat from passive smoking. Why do we attach more importance to the impacts of passive smoking on children’s health? Children are easier to be affected than adults, as children’s health are more fragile.

The children who die of smoke-related respiratory infections are more likely to live with second-hand smoke exposure, principally the exposure in their own homes. Compared with adults, children neither can choose their family or has the ability to escape from the places which may do harm to them. The only thing for a child born in a family with smokers can do is to breath in the smoke. Children is so weak and have no ability to change that we often pay more attention to the things related to children and try our best to safeguard their rights. When the children become the protagonists of the tragedy, the story will deliver a sense of powerless and the hope of some citizens will lose.

Passive smoking do more harm than people think. In many people’s opinions, it only related to some mild respiratory illnesses, which seems non-lethal and also can be cause by something else, like PM 2.5. Maybe it is correct for most adults, but it must be wrong for children. Passive smoking may cause children to have many kinds of diseases, not only respiratory illnesses, but also ear infections, cardiovascular disease and even cancer. It may even lead to weak organs and prevent the to grow their full potential. In very young children, it even increases the risk sudden death. It’s the society’s woe that the most innocent lives is destroyed and the destruction can be avoided.

Although more and more smokers tend to quit smoking, one in every three adults are smokers. Fortunately, nowadays smoking in some places was prohibited by law in some countries. It’s said that there is 7.4% of the world’s population live in countries with laws to prevent smoking in public places. We all know it is hard for smokers to quit smoking therefore we never compel smokers to quit smoking. Many countries prohibit smokers from smoking in public places by moral or by law in order to reduce the impacts of second-hand smoke. However, we can condemn smokers for smoking in a private place where there are some non-smokers, but it’s difficult to state that it is illegal to smoke in some private places, especially at home, which seems unreasonable. Therefore, how to protect children from second-hand smoke is a problem to be solved.

In a word, children is more fragile than we think when faced with second-hand smoke. They are new to the world and struggle to being alive. We should help them to live better but not ignore them and add weight that they struggle to live should carry on.

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