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Researchers at UC Davis recently described in unprecedented biochemical and anatomical detail how cigarette smoke damages the lungs of unborn and newborn children. The results of the study illustrate with the dangers that smokers' families and friends face. According to the authors of the study, smoke exposure causes significant damage and lasting consequences in newborns. This research has a message for every parent: Do not smoke or breathe secondhand smoke while you are pregnant. Do not let your children breathe secondhand smoke after they are born. Results supply further proof that secondhand smoke's effects on children are not minor, temporary, or reversible. The effects will not go away. If children do not grow healthy lungs when they are supposed to, they will likely never recover. The process is not forgiving and the children are not going to be able to make up this loss later in life. To get the word out to parents about the dangers of secondhand smoke, two states (Arkansas and Louisiana) have made it illegal to smoke in a car with young passengers. In California, a similar bill is currently under consideration in the state Legislature.
The legislature appears to be a step in the right direction. How enforceable it will prove to be, however, another question. Still, it is a start.
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8-18-2006 @ 5:22PM
Michelle said...This just makes me so angry. Not that I didn't already know this, but, just the whole tobacco industry is just so beyond evil. And I was a heavy smoker in my twenties. An addictive, disgusting, filthy and terrible habit. My father died two years ago from lung cancer and my own smoking has left me with asthma. Luckily, I quit years and years before I had children and I won't take my kids to see certain family members because of their excessive smoking and obnoxious denial of how bad it is.
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8-18-2006 @ 5:54PM
Joey's Mom said...I am THRILLED to read that is becoming illegal to smoke with children in your car. I've always said, smoking around children should be considered endangerment to a minor. I really hope one day we have that law here in Connecticut. I see parents all the time puffing away with infant seats in their cars. It makes me sick. Those poor babies dont have a voice to tell their parents to put out the cigarettes.
With all the information out there about how deadly cigarette smoke is both first-hand and second-hand, how can parents smoke around their children, or at all for that matter, and live with themselves? How do they justify it?
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8-18-2006 @ 6:52PM
san said...My wife and I both smoke, but outside and never in the car -- and by not in the car I mean not in the car, ever, not actually in the car when the kids aren't in it. I'm having trouble seeing what the big deal is, really. Of all the inconvenient things you have to do for kids, this is just one more. I suppose it has something to do with not being able to smoke where and when you want to. But with three kids I can't do *anything* where and when I want to.
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8-18-2006 @ 7:47PM
Trisha said...This kind of stuff scares me because my dad smoked when I young. I don't know exactly how much because I don't remember. But it may very likely have hurt me in some way and there is nothing I can do about it. I don't blame him though, when he started there wasn't information about how bad it was, although I bet the tobacco companies knew.
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8-18-2006 @ 8:39PM
Michelle said...San, quit for your kids. The likelihood of you and/or your wife becoming ill from smoking AND the likelihood that your kids will also smoke should really make you want to quit. Losing a parent to cancer is no fun.
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8-19-2006 @ 9:34AM
sara the fertility expert said...Personally, i think this legislation to protect babies and young children is just reinforcing common sense. Parents have a responsibility to protect their children, surely giving them clean air is obvious?
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