Smoking habits are unnoticed by the smokers many cause loss and danger. Active smoking does increase the risk of heart disease and lung cancer. However, unwittingly becoming a passive smoker also raises health and psychological problems, such as:
If pregnant women who become passive smokers, the smoke can cause disruption of growth and development of the fetus to a miscarriage.
Although it is not known for certain that cigarette smoke can cause the baby to have sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). But it is good to prevent before the unwanted things happen. In addition to allegedly due to genetic factors, SIDS is also caused by bacterial infection or inhalation of substances that can cause the baby difficult breathing. Whatever the possibilities of harm, dad and mother should do something that can reduce the risk of infant death, one of them by not smoking near them.
When children are passive smokers, the health hazard is greater. Because the immune system (endurance) they are still weak and not perfect. One of the risks of children who become passive smokers is slow lung growth, asthma, inflammation of the respiratory tract, ear infections, pneumena, allergies, and prolonged cough.
Parents who often smoke in front of children can affect his psychic condition. Children tend to believe that smoking is not a bad lifestyle. When they are small, they try to imitate the smoking style by putting a pen in his mouth. As teenagers, they may do the real thing. Eventually they become addicted to smoking early.
Therefore, as much as possible the habit of smoking is avoided and even there should be preventive measures ranging from small. This can be done starting from the family itself. Provide education and explanation to our family environment for the dangers of smoking, especially in children so they do not smoke in adulthood.