Chinese people are afraid of pollution, and the less haze, exhaust gas, radiation... the better. However, there is a fatal pollution hidden around us:
A Chinese dies because of it every 5 minutes; Nearly 200 million Chinese children live in its shadow.
But many people "turn a blind eye" to this pollution.
Second-hand smoke induces asthma
may also lead to sudden infant death
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Many people know that second-hand smoke is harmful, but most people are not sure about the specific harm.
second-hand smoke, also known as tobacco smoke pollution, contains a large amount of PM 2.5, as well as hundreds of toxic and 69 carcinogens, such as highly toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds, arsenic, benzene, nitrosamines, etc. This terrible pollution of
is even more harmful to children.
Second-hand smoke can damage children's respiratory system and brain health, and will not only cause diseases such as asthma, otitis media, bronchitis and pneumonia in children, but also lead to sudden infant death syndrome.
Adults may frown when they smell the smoke and complain a few words in secret. But for children, the smell of smoke may mean pain:
Because of a cigarette in the hand of a relative, the child was choked and coughed constantly, and his face was red;
Because of a smoke-smelling dinner, the child suffered from tracheitis, and had a poor breathing, coughing, and even went to the hospital with a fever;
Because he got on a bus with smoke, the child had asthma, could not breathe, his lips were bruised, and he struggled on the verge of suffocation;
...
Compared with adults, the symptoms of children such as bronchitis and pneumonia caused by second-hand smoke are more serious.
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Is this the biggest harm of second-hand smoke?
not! Second-hand smoke can also lead to sudden infant death syndrome.
Some children, perhaps before they opened their eyes, had already died silently in the smoke.
The United States statistics show that
has about 1,900 to 2,700 sudden infant death syndrome every year, which is considered to be related to second-hand smoke; second-hand smoke also causes an increase in the number of asthma children with asthma every year, and the symptoms worsen.
has 150,000 to 300,000 children under the age of 8 years old, and respiratory infections caused by inhaling second-hand smoke, of which about 15,000 need to be hospitalized.
. China has insufficient relevant research data, but as the world's number one "tobacco power", the situation may be even more serious.
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Chinese
ubiquitous second-hand smoke
second-hand smoke has no safety level, and as long as you contact it, it will affect your child. Even if exhaust fans, air conditioners, and air filter devices are installed, the harm caused by second-hand smoke cannot be avoided.
The only way to protect children from the harm of second-hand smoke is: to ban smoking in public places completely.
In the past decade, some cities in China have begun to ban smoking in public places, but this is far from enough. The survey shows that the smoking rate of
in China's offices is 70%, and the smoking rate of restaurants and bars is as high as 80% and 89%. The smoking rate is considered to be the warmest and most reassuring home, and the smoking rate is also 80%.
According to statistics from the World Health Organization, in China, nearly 200 million children live in a second-hand environment.
Grandpa held the child, but did not destroy the cigarette in his hand;
Relatives came to visit the house and lit a cigarette while chatting;
took the child out to play, and when the elevator door opened, it was full of smoke;
went to the restaurant to have dinner, and there was a table of smoke floating next to it;
...
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Breathing clean air is a basic human right.
But facing the pungent second-hand smoke, Chinese children have nowhere to escape.
They even... don't even have the right to say "no".
Children dare not object, and many adults dare not:
is afraid of being beaten
In China, in some people's minds, smoking in public places is "normal", and discouraging smoking is "seeking trouble for nothing".
People often get beaten and scolded by smokers for discouraging others in public places for smoking.
The nurse in the hospital was beaten for persuading smoking ▼
The driver of the bus was beaten for persuading smoking ▼
The child was beaten for carrying a child ▼
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Bravely stood up to dissuade people from smoking, not because they were looking for trouble, and they didn't want to be beaten and scolded. They just want to find a place without smoke in the vast China and in their daily life.
It is your personal freedom to smoke if you ignore your health.
But please don't hurt our children!
References:
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(http://www.wpro.who.int/china/publications/2017_china_tobacco_control_report_ch.pdf)
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(http://iris.wpro.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665.1/12827/9789290617389_chi.pdf)
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