Unacceptable behaviour in the family
Smoking
There is no secret about the great
danger posed to adults by
smoking. If this danger is posed to adults by smoking then what
do you think are the dangers posed to children by smoking?
Smokers who sit with their children in the same room force them
to inhale the smoke and expose them
to the risk of alarming
diseases through no fault of their own. So it is as if this child
wants to say: “This is what my father brought upon me.”
This is known as passive smoking and it is more dangerous for
non-‐smokers and children than for the adult smokers themselves.
Studies have shown that children
who are born to mothers who
smoke have smaller birth weight than other children, because the
harmful substances in cigarettes
pass to the foetus via the
circulatory system. The mother who smokes may have a
miscarriage and there is also a connection between widespread
asthma among children and parental smoking.
Statistics drawn up
by the World Health Organization indicate that six hundred
thousand children in the world die annually as a result of
exposure to passive smoking that
causes damage to the lungs,
respiratory system and heart, and causes cancer. The danger is
increased
if the mother smokes, because the child spends most of
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