Shoppers told smoking dangers to children (From This Is Cheshire)
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Shoppers told smoking dangers to children
5:36pm Wednesday 8th September 2010 in News
GOLDEN Square Shopping Centre hosted a Smokefree North West roadshow highlighting its ‘Take 7 Steps Out’ campaign.
The roadshow visited town earlier this month to teach smokers how to protect children and young people from illnesses caused by cigarette smoke.
Dr Rita Robertson, director of public health at NHS Warrington, said: “Smoking around children in enclosed spaces exposes their developing lungs to terrible toxins and can trigger asthma attacks, respiratory infections, and even cot death.”
Many of the harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke are invisible and there is no way of knowing where they are lingering.
Evidence shows that those exposed to secondhand smoke are 25 per cent more likely to develop cancer or coronary heart disease later in life and children who grow up with parents that smoke are three times more likely to become smokers themselves.
For more information on making your home smokefree visit take7stepsout.co.uk.
richiepooh says...
1:54pm Thu 9 Sep 10
Wow that's one hell of a doctor, Here's the rest of the world still looking for scientific links and a cause for such as cot death. I bet her eyebrows must be really far apart to be so intelligent (based on the same research)