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juliaoceania -> RE: Smoking Ban - When is it too much? (1/17/2007 9:27:47 PM)
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Until then, until people are just as ready to stop parents from letting their kids step foot out into the big bad word of deadly air pollutants that trigger asthma to allergys..it remains lame. Will even go so far as to say that if you can provide a link that all asthmatics are triggered into an attack as a result of second hand smoke? A high percentage even? How about factual numbers of parents with asthmatic children that are smoking around them?
My son used to have asthma that he outgrew, his asthma was triggered by second hand smoke. Many different things can trigger asthma, but the wisest most humane thing a parent can do is limit exposure to triggers... I used to keep my son inside on really bad pollution days for example. Limit exposure limits attacks.... limiting attacks can save lives. If your child was triggered by cigarettes would you allow them to be subjected to them? I cannot imagine that you would... I smoked outside and not even in my car when I was a smoker... my son did not sign up to be exposed to my bad habit... and I love him to much to allow him to have to go to the hospital because I could not control my behavior.
Now here is some information about children and second hand smoke... not that you will believe it, but just so ya know
http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/tobacco/secondhand_smoke.cfm
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35422
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Secondhand smoke has been classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a known cause of cancer in humans (Group A carcinogen).2 -
Secondhand smoke exposure causes disease and premature death in children and adults who do not smoke. Secondhand smoke contains hundreds of chemicals known to be toxic or carcinogenic, including formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic ammonia and hydrogen cyanide.3 -
Secondhand smoke causes approximately 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 22,700-69,600 heart disease deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States each year.4 -
A study found that nonsmokers exposed to environmental smoke were 25 percent more likely to have coronary heart diseases compared to nonsmokers not exposed to smoke.67 -
Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at work are at increased risk for adverse health effects. Levels of ETS in restaurants and bars were found to be 2 to 5 times higher than in residences with smokers and 2 to 6 times higher than in office workplaces.89 -
Since 1999, 70 percent of the U.S. workforce worked under a smoke-free policy, ranging from 83.9 percent in Utah to 48.7 percent in Nevada.1011 Workplace productivity was increased and absenteeism was decreased among former smokers compared with current smokers.1213 -
Currently, 14 states including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have already passed strong smoke-free air laws.1415 -
As of 2005, nine smoke-free states prohibit smoking in almost all workplaces, including restaurants and bars (CA, CT, DE, ME, MA, NY, RI, VT and WA).1617 -
Secondhand smoke is especially harmful to young children. Secondhand smoke is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children under 18 months of age, resulting in between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations each year, and causes 1,900 to 2,700 sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) deaths in the United States annually.1819 -
Secondhand smoke exposure may cause buildup of fluid in the middle ear, resulting in 700,000 to 1.6 million physician office visits per year.2021 Secondhand smoke can also aggravate symptoms in 400,000 to 1,000,000 children with asthma.2223 -
In the United States, 21 million, or 35 percent of, children live in homes where residents or visitors smoke in the home on a regular basis.2425 Approximately 50-75 percent of children in the United States have detectable levels of cotinine, the breakdown product of nicotine in the blood.2627 -
New research indicates that private research conducted by cigarette company Philip Morris in the 1980s showed that secondhand smoke was highly toxic, yet the company suppressed the finding during the next two decades.2829 -
The current Surgeon General's Report concluded that scientific evidence indicates that there is no risk-free level of exposure to second hand smoke. Short exposures to second hand smoke can cause blood platelets to become stickier, damage the lining of blood vessels, decrease coronary flow velocity reserves, and reduce heart rate variability, potentially increasing the risk of heart attack.3031
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