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THE EFFECTS OF SMOKING AND SECONDHAND SMOKE ON YOUR BABY TEEN PARENTS THE EFFECTS OF SMOKING AND SECONDHAND SMOKE ON YOUR BABY

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Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts

Secondhand smoke is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, cigar, the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. This mixture contains more than 4,000 chemicals, more than 40 of which are known to cause cancer in humans or animals, and many of which are strong irritants. 4/20/2017

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Exposure to secondhand smoke is called involuntary smoking, or passive smoking. 4/20/2017

Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts Secondhand smoke has been classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a known cause of lung cancer in humans. Estimated to cause approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmokers each year. Secondhand smoke is a serious health risk to children. 4/20/2017

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Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts Children face a higher risk than adults of the negative effects of secondhand smoke. Not only is a child's body still developing physically, but their breathing rate is faster than that of adults. Adults breathe in and out approximately 14 to 18 times a minute, where newborns can breathe as many as 60 times a minute. Up until a child is about 5 years old, the respiratory rate is quite fast; usually between 20 and 60 breaths per minute. 4/20/2017

Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts When the air is tainted with cigarette smoke, young, developing lungs receive a higher concentration of inhaled toxins than do older lungs. Think about it: young children have less control over their surroundings than the rest of us. Babies can't move to another room because the air is smoky. They depend on us to provide them with clean air to breathe. 4/20/2017

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Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts Children who spend one hour in an extremely smoky room inhale enough toxic chemicals to equal smoking 10 cigarettes. 4/20/2017

Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts Compared with unexposed infants, babies exposed to secondhand smoke after birth are at twice the risk for SIDS. A California EPA study has estimated that between 1900 and 2700 children die annually of SIDS due to secondhand smoke exposure. 4/20/2017

Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts Among children under 18 months of age in the United States, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis or pneumonia each year. 4/20/2017

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Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts Children in smoking households experience more middle ear infections. Inhaled cigarette smoke irritates the Eustachian tube, and the subsequent swelling leads to infections, which are the most common cause of hearing loss in children. 4/20/2017

Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts The developing lungs of young children are also affected by exposure to secondhand smoke. Infants and young children whose parents smoke are among the most seriously affected by exposure to secondhand smoke, being at increased risk of lower respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis. 4/20/2017

Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts EPA estimates that passive smoking is responsible for between 150,000 - 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children under 18 months of age annually, resulting in between 7,500 - 15,000 hospitalizations each year. 4/20/2017

Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts Children exposed to secondhand smoke are also more likely to have reduced lung function and symptoms of respiratory irritation like cough, excess phlegm, and wheeze. Passive smoking can lead to buildup of fluid in the middle ear, the most common cause of hospitalization of children for an operation. 4/20/2017

Secondhand Smoke and Children - Facts Asthmatic children are especially at risk. EPA estimates that exposure to secondhand smoke increases the number of episodes and severity of symptoms in hundreds of thousands of asthmatic children. EPA estimates that between 200,000 - 1 million asthmatic children have their condition made worse by exposure to secondhand smoke Passive smoking may also cause thousands of non-asthmatic children to develop the condition each year. 4/20/2017

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES When a woman continues to smoke during pregnancy, the risks to the unborn child are great. These statistics come out of the 2004 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking*: Research has shown that women's smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of pregnancy complications, premature delivery, low-birth-weight infants, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). 4/20/2017

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WHEN MOMMY SMOKES Babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are at an increased risk for developmental issues such as learning disabilities and cerebral palsy. 4/20/2017

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES SIDS (sudden infant Death Syndrome) Fetuses exposed to chemicals in cigarettes through the placenta are thought to be at an increased risk of SIDS. Infants whose mothers smoked before and after birth are at three to four times greater risk of SIDS . 4/20/2017

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES Babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy often weigh less when they are born than those who are born to non smoking mothers. 4/20/2017

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WHEN MOMMY SMOKES The nicotine in cigarettes may cause constrictions in the blood vessels of the umbilical cord and uterus, thereby decreasing the amount of oxygen available to the fetus. Nicotine also may reduce the amount of blood in the fetal cardiovascular system. 4/20/2017

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES Nicotine is found in breast milk. 4/20/2017

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES Babies of mothers who smoked during pregnancy have lower birth weights. Low birth weight is a leading cause of infant deaths, resulting in more than 300,000 deaths annually among newborns in the United States. 4/20/2017

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES In general, pregnant smokers eat more than pregnant nonsmokers, yet their babies weigh less than babies of nonsmokers. This weight deficit is smaller if smokers quit early in their pregnancy. 4/20/2017

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES Mothers' smoking during pregnancy reduces their babies' lung function. 4/20/2017

WHEN MOMMY SMOKES In 2001, 17.5% of teenaged mothers smoked during pregnancy. Only 18% to 25% of all women quit smoking once they become pregnant. 4/20/2017

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Please...protect your children from the dangers of secondhand smoke by providing them with smoke free air to breathe. They depend on you. If you smoke, quit now! 4/20/2017

WHAT CAN YOU DO? Don't smoke in your home. Ask other people not to smoke in your home, especially baby-sitters or others who may care for your children. Choose children's day care centers, schools, restaurants and other places you spend time in that are  smoke-free. Ask smokers to go outside while they smoke. If someone must smoke inside, limit them to rooms where windows can be opened or fans can be used to send the smoke outside. 4/20/2017

WHAT CAN YOU DO? If you smoke, never smoke around children. Let family, friends and people you work with know that you do care if they smoke around you and your baby. It's illegal to smoke with any minor child in a car in California effective 1/1/08. 4/20/2017

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WHAT CAN YOU DO? Help people who are trying to quit smoking. 1-800-NOBUTTS 4/20/2017

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REFERENCES Quitsmoking.about.com 4/20/2017