Protect your family with a smoke-free home

There is a steady stream of scientific evidence that shows that if a family has a husbandsmoke, in addition to respiratory cancers, wives are 20% more likely to get cancer than wives who have never been exposed to cigarette smoke. This rate is almost equivalent to the wife directly smoking cigarettes - According to the assessment report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, under the World Health Organization.

Childrenare the most vulnerable group to secondhand smoke. Children breathe faster than adults, so the amount of toxins inhaled from the outside environment is also higher. All studies on secondhand smoke show that secondhand smoke causes extremely serious health hazards, especially for children.

Most children living in families with parents who smoke experience the following symptoms: Susceptible to lung infections; often have symptoms of coughing, wheezing or asthma; susceptible to ear diseases such as otitis media.

Cigarette smoke can spread throughout the house, not limited to certain areas, even when the windows are open. Therefore, if the family has a parent who smokes, passive smoking for children is inevitable, despite measures that are supposed to "protect children" such as smoking near a window, or in a separate room from the child's room.

Almost 85% of cigarette smoke is invisible, and it can linger in a room for up to 2.5 hours, even with windows open. Common methods, such as smoking outside a window or next to a fan, are ineffective in removing smoke from the home. Smoke can linger on carpets, furniture, and walls, which absorb the toxins in cigarette smoke and gradually release them back into the air, creating a risk of secondary exposure.

In enclosed spaces, tobacco smoke contamination cannot be removed by conventional cleaning methods or ventilation. Although the impact of this is still unclear, because children cannot control their behavior while playing and eating, it is easy for children to ingest food with high concentrations of tobacco smoke.

Nowadays, children spend most of their time indoors. However, they are not yet capable of recognizing the harmful effects of cigarette smoke on their bodies and preventing it. As mentioned above, children breathe faster than adults, so the amount of toxins they inhale from the outside environment is also higher.

Research shows that after exposure to cigarette smoke, children have 70% higher levels of cotinine than adults (cotinine is a metabolite of nicotine in the body, used to assess exposure to cigarette smoke). There has been no research on the levels of other toxic substances in children exposed to secondhand smoke, but this research is enough to sound the alarm about the potential serious effects of cigarette smoke on young children.