Facts About Tobacco

Children who breathe secondhand tobacco smoke inhale:

  • arsenic
  • ammonia
  • butane
  • carbon monoxide
  • formaldehyde
  • hydrogen cyanide
  • nicotine
  • tar

Would you want anyone to breathe these toxic chemicals, let alone your own child?

Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, illegal drugs, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fires and AIDS combined! (Click here for the numbers.) 		How many cigarettes does your child smoke?
Riding with someone smoking with the windows up for 1 hour is comparable to smoking 4 cigarettes.
Living in a pack-a-day smoker's home is comparable to smoking 3 cigarettes.  
(University of California, Berkeley Study)
Did you know?  
Infants under 18 months who live in a smoking household are twice as likely to die from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

 

Exposure to tobacco smoke results in:

  • 350,000 ear infections
  • 86,000 ear operations (tubes)
  • 18,000 tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy surgeries
  • 500,000 physician visits for asthma
  • 600,000 physician visits for coughs
  • 152,000 cases of pneumonia
  • 350,000 cases of bronchitis

(Joseph Di Franza, MD, Pediatrics; Morbidity and Mortality in Children Associated with the Use of Tobacco Products by other People)

What does more illness mean to a family?

  • Stress
  • Doctor’s visits
  • Sleepless nights
  • Missed school and work
  • Last minute child care arrangements
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