Second Hand Smoking Informative Speech
Many of us know what a cigarette can do to our bodies, & all the contaminants in one cigarette alone. But do we know what second hand smoke can do to our children?
How many of you unknowingly smoke around others? How many of you smoke around children? Have you ever heard of third hand smoke?
Let me first define what second hand smoke is. Second hand smoke is when a smoker breathes out from the tip of a burning cigarettes, pipes, or cigars and contains about 7,000 chemicals. Second-hand smoke is made up of ‘mainstream’ smoke, which the smoker breathes out, and ‘sidestream’ smoke, which drifts from the end of a burning cigarette.t
By standing next to someone who does smoke, you might as well pick up a cigarette and join them with their session. …show more content…
You wouldn’t want to see a 3-year-old smoking, let alone an infant. So why would you smoke around them. There are over 50 chemicals in cigarettes that causes cancer. Anytime a child breathes in secondhand smoke they are exposed to these chemicals. They have a higher risk of SIDS, acute respiratory infection, chronic mild ear infection, reduced lung function growth and infamously known, Asthma.
Babies and children take more smoke into their lungs than adults. They're still growing and their immune system isn't fully developed, they're at greater risk from the toxins given out in the smoke.
Children exposed to tobacco smoke are more likely to have respiratory infections and are more likely to go on to develop severe asthma as they get older.
Older children diagnosed with asthma or being treated for asthma are at a high risk an asthma attack.
In 1964 surgeon general’s report 2.5 million adults who were nonsmokers died because they breathed secondhand smoke. Imagine how high the numbers must be for infants and children. Today the Surgeon General warns that there is no level of cigarette smoke that is considered safe, especially for infants whose lungs are more fragile than an
How many of you unknowingly smoke around others? How many of you smoke around children? Have you ever heard of third hand smoke?
Let me first define what second hand smoke is. Second hand smoke is when a smoker breathes out from the tip of a burning cigarettes, pipes, or cigars and contains about 7,000 chemicals. Second-hand smoke is made up of ‘mainstream’ smoke, which the smoker breathes out, and ‘sidestream’ smoke, which drifts from the end of a burning cigarette.t
By standing next to someone who does smoke, you might as well pick up a cigarette and join them with their session. …show more content…
You wouldn’t want to see a 3-year-old smoking, let alone an infant. So why would you smoke around them. There are over 50 chemicals in cigarettes that causes cancer. Anytime a child breathes in secondhand smoke they are exposed to these chemicals. They have a higher risk of SIDS, acute respiratory infection, chronic mild ear infection, reduced lung function growth and infamously known, Asthma.
Babies and children take more smoke into their lungs than adults. They're still growing and their immune system isn't fully developed, they're at greater risk from the toxins given out in the smoke.
Children exposed to tobacco smoke are more likely to have respiratory infections and are more likely to go on to develop severe asthma as they get older.
Older children diagnosed with asthma or being treated for asthma are at a high risk an asthma attack.
In 1964 surgeon general’s report 2.5 million adults who were nonsmokers died because they breathed secondhand smoke. Imagine how high the numbers must be for infants and children. Today the Surgeon General warns that there is no level of cigarette smoke that is considered safe, especially for infants whose lungs are more fragile than an