Children and Smoking

CHILDREN AND SMOKING

How We Can Protect Our Children from Secondhand Smoke: A Parent’s Guide (CDC)

Secondhand smoke comes from lit cigarettes and cigars. It also comes from smoke breathed out by smokers. When children breathe secondhand smoke, it is like they are smoking, too. Secondhand smoke is made of thousands of chemicals. Many are poisons that stay in your body. What do these poisons do?

How Parents Can Protect Their Kids From Becoming Addicted Smokers

Parents can take a number of effective actions to protect their kids from starting to smoke or becoming another one of the tobacco industry’s addicted customers and victims. Being good parents and role models is important, but it takes much more to prevent kids from smoking.

Tobacco Companies Cannot Survive Unless Kids Smoke

The big tobacco companies have initiated massive public relations campaigns to persuade government policymakers and the public that they have turned over a new leaf and are now responsible corporate citizens. But they are lying.