Role Of Secondhand Smoking In Children

Community Health Nurses’ Role to Prevent Secondhand Smoking’s Effects in Children
Virender Kaur
California State University, Bakersfield

Community Health Nurses’ Role to Prevent Secondhand Smoking’s Effects in Children
Secondhand smoke is the mixture of smoke from burning tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, or pipes and smoke exhaled or breathed out by a smoker (American Cancer Society, 2015). The two types of secondhand smoke are mainstream and side-stream smoke; the mainstream smoke is the smoke that a smoker exhales, and the side-stream smoke comes directly from the burning of tobacco product (American Cancer Society, 2015). Secondhand smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, and 70 of them are known to cause cancer, and there’s no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke exist
Secondhand smoking is an important health concern for community health nursing (CHN) because it can cause serious illnesses and deaths, which could be prevented by educating people about harms of secondhand smoke. According to the