We know it, most know it, or at least it seems that we are more aware of it than a few years ago. Smoking in front of children is also harmful to their health and yet it is still being done. What if our babies could tell us something? They would surely scream "Don't smoke me! I want to grow without smoke", which gives its name to an edited guide to raise awareness among families with young children.
The guide for fathers and mothers focuses on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking, which is usually suffered by children of smoking parents, unless certain important measures are taken and also advised in this document.
It is a small guide that we can see in pdf. and what do you recommend "If you smoke, consider quitting smoking, for your health and also for the health of your son or daughter". And apara those who can not quit, are offered important guidelines so that smoking does not affect children, even in the case of nursing mothers.
It reminds us that the environmental smoke of tobacco or secondhand smoke is a mixture produced by the smoke exhaled by people who smoke and the smoke produced by the passive combustion of cigarettes. Both types of smoke are toxic and contain many respiratory and carcinogenic irritants, act as a vapor settling in the environment, in clothes, hair ...
Babies and children are more sensitive to the effects of tobacco smoke, which is especially dangerous for your lungs and your immune system and in the case of infants it is related to sudden death syndrome.
These and other issues are addressed in the guide, edited by the Public Health Agency of Catalonia:
- What will my son or daughter gain if we do not expose them to environmental tobacco smoke?
- What can I do to avoid exposing my son or daughter to environmental tobacco smoke?
- Topics and misconduct
- In order to breastfeed my son or daughter do I have to quit smoking?
In short, let's take it into account, if they could tell us, they would: "Don't smoke, I want to grow without smoke". In fact, when they grow up they tell their parents and become "guardians." Welcome, if in the end for them you can quit smoking.
