PMID: 16521983Mar 9, 2006Paper

The tobacco smoke as the main factor of in-door pollution in the aspect of the children health

Przegla̧d lekarski
Donata KurpasAndrzej Steciwko

Abstract

Taking the tobacco plant will cause close 450 millions of deaths worldwide within 50 closest years. The numerous epidemiological research is pointing that exposing children to the tobacco smoke is involving with more frequent occurrence of lower airways and middle ear diseases, asthma or SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). Exposing in the childhood can involve the development of cancer also in adult patients. Current epidemiological notifications are pointing that the 56% of children and the 24% of pregnant women are exposed to passive smoking. 27% of women breast-feeding and the 15-20% of pregnant women are smoking (35-40% of unemployed women with the low degree of education). 100,000 of Polish newborns are having the symptoms of poisoning with the tobacco smoke, and 4 millions are exposed to passive smoking. Exposure of the home environment is inversely proportional to child's age - the younger child the longer time of exposure to environmental factors that affecting state of health negatively. It is mentioning as main of home environment factors the exposure to the tobacco smoke (mothers made conditional on the nicotine).

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