"Quit Exposing Your Children to Harmful Secondhand Smoke Today"

The Electronic Cigarette contains no Secondhand Smoke

The smoke produced by the E-Cig is not smoke at all, but a visible vapor

I first want to congratulate you on your interest in how you can remove the danger conventional tobacco cigarettes pose to your children's health. In this section, it will be made clear the detriment to your children's health that tobacco cigarettes cause. It is no mystery that tobacco smoke, both firsthand and secondhand, is very harmful.

Secondhand smoke, however, is especially harmful to babies and younger children as their bodies are still in the growing phase. During this phase, your children need constant vitamins and minerals in order to form a healthy, strong immune system. When exposed to harmful substances, such as those in tobacco smoke, children are more negatively affected because they have yet to develop a strong defense system against these toxins. These toxins are harmful to your children and to their bodies’ ability to fight back from illness and injury.

"What Sort of Harm is Tobacco Smoke Causing My Children?"

The following statements are from the *U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Office of the Surgeon General on the effects secondhand smoke has on children.

Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke in Children

Because their bodies are developing, infants and young children are especially vulnerable to the poisons in secondhand smoke.

Babies whose mothers smoke while pregnant and babies who are exposed to secondhand smoke after birth are more likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than babies who are not exposed to cigarette smoke.

Mothers who are exposed to secondhand smoke while pregnant are more likely to have lower birth weight babies, which makes babies weaker and increases the risk for many health problems.

Babies whose mothers smoke while pregnant or who are exposed to secondhand smoke after birth have weaker lungs than other babies, which increases the risk for many health problems.

Secondhand smoke exposure causes acute lower respiratory infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia in infants and young children.

Secondhand smoke exposure causes children who already have asthma to experience more frequent and severe attacks.

Secondhand smoke exposure causes respiratory symptoms, including coughing, phlegm, wheezing, and breathlessness, among school-aged children.

Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at increased risk for ear infections and are more likely to need an operation to insert ear tubes for drainage.

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Among Children

The Surgeon General has concluded that there is no risk-free level of secondhand smoke exposure. Even brief exposures can be harmful.

On average, children are exposed to more secondhand smoke than nonsmoking adults.

Based on levels of cotinine (a biological marker of secondhand smoke exposure), an estimated 22 million children aged 3-11 years and 18 million youth aged 12-19 years, were exposed to secondhand smoke in the United States in 2000.

Children aged 3-11 years and youth aged 12-19 years are significantly more likely than adults to live in a household with at least one smoker.

Children aged 3-11 years have cotinine levels more than twice as high as nonsmoking adults.

Children who live in homes where smoking is allowed have higher cotinine levels than children who live in homes where smoking is not allowed.

The higher levels of cotinine in those kids also means there is a higher level of all the other harmful toxins that are present in tobacco smoke. These substances are very dangerous to children’s health and every parent should strive to do all they can to eliminate such dangers from their children.

So now you are probably wondering – What can I do to eliminate these harmful substances and protect the health of my children? The answer – switch to the Electronic Cigarette and get rid of those harmful tobacco cigarettes.

It is no secret that cigarettes are addictive. However, people do not get addicted to all the harmful toxins that are in the cigarette, they get addicted to the nicotine. The Electronic Cigarette addresses this particular issue. When you smoke the E-cig, you are not burning any sort of tobacco leaf or any other substance, so there are none of the harmful toxins that are found in tobacco cigarettes. You are simply breathing in a vapor with nicotine infused in it in order to fulfill your craving and addiction.

"The Electronic Cigarette produces NO secondhand smoke"

This means that with the E-cig, you can now smoke in front of your children without having to worry about them breathing in the extremely dangerous poisons in tobacco smoke (of course, we do not encourage or promote you to ever smoke in front of your children, but if you are going to do it, doing it with the E-cig will not put them at risk of the toxins in secondhand smoke). The smoke of the E-cig is really not smoke at all, but simply a vapor made to resemble smoke.

So make the decision today to make a change and switch to the Electronic Cigarette and spare your children from being exposed to secondhand smoke, and you yourself will also no longer be inhaling all those horrible, health deteriorating toxins in tobacco cigarettes.

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*U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke. Accessed 12-15-08. Available: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/factsheets/factsheet2.html