Did you know that PASSIVE smoking kills 165,000 children a year according to the WHO (World Health Organisation)? I am not kidding. We’re not even talking about the kids smoking. We’re talking about the adults smoking and then coming into contact with kids. Have you ever heard of 3rd hand smoke?

3rd hand smoke is the smoke that retains on your couch, the curtains, the carpet, the timber on your coffee table, your skin (YOUR SKIN!!!) and when this 3rd hand smoke reacts with certain chemicals in our environment (oh, you didn’t know that the air that we breathe in could have chemicals?), they become deathly. When a child is exposed to repeated amounts of these bad, toxic air, the child becomes susceptible to asthma and other heart diseases that were not necessarily genetic. According to studies, even when adults smoke OUTSIDE the house, it makes no difference to the danger to the kids. This toxic substance from your smoke, is all over you and you then spread it all over your house, on your couch, your clothes, the tables etc. The lungs and organs of kids are vastly different from adults and they are a lot more sensitive, weaker to diseases. It might take 3 packets of cigarettes straight up before you feel an oncoming sore throat but for a child, half a cigarette could land him a sore throat.

So what do you do if you are a smoker and have kids around you?

You stop smoking if you care about the kids. Or you smoke an e cigarette. Otherwise, make sure your ventilation is very good and have a full blasting fan blowing air out of the house so that any chemically contaminated air is blown out. Have as much ventilation as possible and replace your furnishings often. Because this toxic substances really get embedded into your furniture and soft furnishings.

Information sourced from MSNBC, New York Times and Business Week.

For more information: www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-third-hand-smoke

Ladies, if you have husbands who smoke and care about your children, please go read up about 3rd hand smoke and educate your husbands. Smoking is a hard habit to kick but it will be a harder lesson when your child is in hospital from a car accident and the Doctor’s tell you he has a very small chance of making it because his lungs are not strong enough in responding to the resuscitator…….

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