Every child is with the hope of their parents to come to the world, is a well-cared for little angel, as long as the child can be born healthy and healthy, pregnant mothers pay more and feel that it is worth it, accompanying the child to grow every day is like walking on thin ice!
However, a little girl in Jining City, Shandong Province, alias An An, just at the age of 8 such a flower-like age actually fell bad news, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, the right side of the chest has been hydrostatic, there are lumps in the lungs, lungs, pleura and mediastinal lymph nodes have cancer cell metastasis, doctors said that the child has no hope. At this moment, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the child's mother fainted on the spot.
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Is it predestined by Heaven, or is there something else hidden?
It turns out that the child's father has more than ten years of smoking history, is a veritable "old smoker", can smoke two packs of cigarettes a day, smoke in front of the child, when the child is still in the mother's belly, the face of pregnant women is not shy away from it, never thought that their smoking will cause any impact on the child.
Now that the child has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, the culprit is the second-hand smoke of the child's father. At this time, the child's father collapsed, full of regret, never expected that his "smoking addiction" actually "strangled" his own daughter, even if he spent all his savings and borrowed more money, he could not return to heaven...
Someone will ask
Is it really that serious?
Second-hand smoke not to be underestimated
Smoking is well known to be an important cause of lung cancer, with 80% of lung cancers caused by smoking [1]. Studies have shown that if a person inhales second-hand smoke for more than 15 minutes a day, the chance of lung cancer is the same as that of smokers. In addition, long-term inhalation of second-hand smoke can also increase the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic pharyngitis and other diseases.
When it comes to lung cancer, it is also related to heredity, so the state advocates eugenics and eugenics, pre-pregnancy examination, including genetic examination, couples need to start smoking and alcohol cessation, take folic acid tablets, exercise appropriately, do not stay up late, balanced nutritional intake, enhance physical fitness, so that the future baby wins at the starting line. I wonder if An'an's parents noticed this when they were trying to conceive.
Second-hand smoke is more harmful to women and pregnant women, and women's long-term second-hand smoke will have adverse effects on reproductive function, sexual function, endocrine and other aspects, resulting in infertility. Exposure to secondhand smoke is also an important risk factor for the development of pregnancy hypertension and pregnancy complications in pregnant women. Harmful substances such as nicotine can be detected in the uterine amniotic fluid of pregnant women who passively smoke secondhand smoke, indicating that tobacco smoke directly pollutes the environment in the womb [2]. An An's father has a history of smoking for more than ten years, which shows that when An An's mother was pregnant, the fetus in her abdomen was already suffering from second-hand smoke.
Children are the biggest victims of environmental pollution, due to children's natural mobility, poor self-protection ability, respiratory system, nervous system, immune system function is not sound, so that they are most vulnerable to second-hand smoke, easy to lead to sudden infant death syndrome, asthma, pneumonia, lung function, otitis media and other diseases. In addition, harmful substances such as nicotine in smoke stimulate the brain and cause atherosclerosis to form, and children who smoke passively for a long time have significantly worse intellectual development than children who grow up in non-smoke environments [3].
If Dad hadn't smoked for a long time, if An Ann, like other children of the same age, could still go to school every day without worry, go to school happily, dance a new dance for his parents, ride his favorite pink scooter in the park, recite the line in his mother's hand... However, reality is always harsh...
Is smoking e-cigarettes able to reduce the harm of second-hand smoke?
Studies have shown that second-hand aerosols (second-hand smoke of e-cigarettes) produced by the heating solution of e-cigarettes are a new source of air pollution. These include particulate matter (including fine and ultrafine particulate matter), propylene glycol, certain volatile organic compounds, certain heavy metals and nicotine. It's not just "water vapor," as many marketing campaigns suggest.
Compared with smokeless fresh air, used aerosols can cause PM1.0 values to be 14 to 40 times higher and PM2.5 values to be 6 times to 86 times higher. The nicotine content is 10 to 115 times higher, the acetaldehyde content is 2 times to 8 times higher, and the formaldehyde content is 20% higher. In addition, e-cigarettes produce certain metal content, such as nickel and chromium, even higher than those produced by conventional cigarette secondhand smoke [2].
Therefore, whether it is second-hand smoke produced by traditional cigarettes or second-hand aerosols produced by electronic cigarettes, its harm cannot be underestimated.
Is it safe to go out and smoke and stay away from children?
Third-hand smoke is people in smoking, attached to clothes, hair, skin, walls, curtains, furniture and other substances of tobacco smoke, even after stopping smoking, the remaining smoke compounds on the surface of the object can still react with the indoor air compounds and produce new pollutants, these residual third-hand smoke has a strong adhesion, can remain for weeks or even months, continue to harm people's health.
It is conceivable that An'an's home is being swallowed up by pollutants all the time. Be careful not to just finish smoking, just come over to tease the child or hold the child!
Write at the end
Seeing this, are you still lucky? "Healthy smoke" is completely non-existent! Because of the speed of the moment, and the destruction of the child's healthy future, the relatives who accompany them day and night have become "ruthless killers".
If you are already a smoker in front of the screen, please remember to quit smoking, for the health of yourself and your family, at least start to try, even if you smoke less, please do not give up!
It is the urgent mission of the whole society to protect children from second-hand smoke and no longer let tragedies be staged!
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