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Women with Children

Letting your children be exposed to tobacco smoke is dangerous for their health and well being.

Warning: After birth, a baby that breathes secondhand smoke is at greater risk of dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) – the leading cause of death among babies younger than one year.

Children of smokers are more likely to become smokers and if exposed to secondhand smoke suffer from:

  • Lower respiratory illnesses
  • Middle ear disease
  • Coughs, phlegm, wheezing, breathlessness
  • Ever having asthma
  • Low lung function

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2006.

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