If you start smoking around your child from birth, by the time they are 5 years old, it is equivalent to inhaling 102 packs of cigarettes.
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Previously, e-cigarettes, known as "smoking cessation artifacts", frequently appeared on hot searches.
A 17-year-old California teenager almost lost his entire lungs due to continuous e-cigarette smoking!
The teenager was admitted to the hospital for coughing, and thought it was just a wind chill, but the results of the examination came out, and the doctor found that his lungs had become "popcorn lungs".
After only a few hours, the teenager began to have trouble breathing and was full of tubes.
What's even more frightening is that the doctor diagnosed that his lungs could not be treated, and he could only undergo a double lung transplant, even if the operation was successful, it might only have 5-6 years of life...
5 months ago, the high school students who were still alive and jumping, their lives have been rewritten, and the culprit is: nicotine!
The teenager did not know that e-cigarettes were not as friendly as they thought.
Although the electronic cigarette atomizes the smoke oil into water vapor for people to absorb through the heating wire, it will not produce tar and carbon monoxide, which seems very healthy, but the content of the culprit nicotine is not lower than that of ordinary cigarettes, and some may be excessive!
Frequent e-cigarette smoking may lead to shortness of breath, asthma, cough, fatigue, and even life-threatening.
Please be sure to be wary of the "new favorite" of this cigarette industry, and don't take it lightly because it has changed its shell.
After all, over the years, too many children who have been killed by cigarettes have been...
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I've seen such a heart-wrenching news:
An 8-year-old girl in Jining, Shandong Province, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
The reason is that the girl's father is an old smoker, can smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day, not only did not quit smoking during his wife's pregnancy, but after the birth of his daughter, he still smoked at home without any shyness.
The doctor told him that the child had lung cancer because of passive smoking every day.
Smokers are susceptible to lung cancer, we all know that.
But that 8-year-old, she doesn't smoke, what did she do wrong?!
This is the terrible thing about second-hand smoke.
Numerous studies have shown that the carcinogens of tobacco are produced in large quantities during the burning of tobacco. In other words, the harm of second-hand smoke is actually far greater than smoking.
Second-hand smoke, which contains more than 250 toxic substances and 69 carcinogens.
According to statistics, there are 182 million non-smoking children in the mainland, innocent of them, on average, at least 1 chance of exposure to second-hand smoke every day...
What's even more frightening is that smoking second-hand smoke can cause harm to children, not only lung cancer.
Respiratory diseases, anorexia, affecting intellectual development, otitis media, allergic diseases, tooth decay, malignant tumors...
The harm of smoking to children is really too much, and the younger the child, the greater the probability and degree of being affected.
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Even, some of the harm begins before the child is even born.
A UK study revealed that smoking in pregnant women is harmful to fetal health and may be reflected in the facial expressions of the fetus.
The researchers performed ultrasound scans on 20 pregnant women, 4 of whom smoked an average of 14 cigarettes per day, while another 16 did not smoke.
Studies have found that the fetuses of smokers have more painful expressions that touch their faces than those who do not smoke.
Above is the fetus of a smoking pregnant woman
Below is the fetus of a non-smoking pregnant woman
Normally, as pregnancy increases, the fetus's mouth and self-touching movements should be less and less, because the fetus is more and more able to control its own movements.
The fetus of smoking pregnant women still has more of this action, which means that the development of the central nervous system of the fetus is delayed.
Moreover, there is a lot of evidence that exposure of pregnant women to second-hand smoke may cause premature birth, increased fetal malformations, impaired intelligence, and in severe cases, sudden death.
Therefore, not only can the expectant mother herself not smoke, but the family also tries not to smoke.
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Some people may say, then I go downstairs, go to the car, go to the balcony to smoke, do not smoke in front of the children can not be?
No way!
Because the residual third-hand smoke on clothes and skin is equally harmful, and the "crime" takes longer.
What is third-hand smoke?
The so-called "third-hand smoke" is the smoke pollution that remains on the surface and dust of clothes, hair, skin, and even walls, carpets, furniture and other objects after smoking, and these pollutants react with oxides in the environment to generate new pollutants.
The harm of third-hand smoke should not be underestimated.
In 2013, scientists confirmed that third-hand smoke can cause DNA damage to human cells!
In 2014, third-hand smoke was shown to remain for 18 hours after the cigarette burned.
In 2018, in in vitro experiments on human lung cancer cells, it was further confirmed that carcinogens in third-hand smoke can induce cell DNA double-strand rupture (DSB), resulting in abnormal cell proliferation and tumor formation.
The harm of third-hand smoke is so great, the most serious impact is still on children.
I've seen a data before:
If you start smoking around children from birth, by the time they're 5 years old, it's the equivalent of inhaling 102 packs of cigarettes.
This data may not be so accurate, but the harm of smoking is real.
Non-smokers vs smokers' lungs▼