| A recent study has disclosed that young children who | | | | likely to suffer from the effects of diseases including |
| reside with their tobacco smoking parents were | | | | meningococcal and respiratory illnesses. |
| virtually fifty percent more probable to be admitted to | | | | The compilers of the study from the University of |
| an infirmary suffering from a communicable disease | | | | Hong Kong have pronounced that passively inhaling |
| prior to reaching eight years of age. | | | | tobacco smoke may undermine the body's immune |
| Roughly 30% of minors who were within a ten foot | | | | systems and likewise bring about respiratory diseases |
| radius of a parent smoking tobacco products during | | | | including pulmonary emphysema and lung cancer. |
| their developing years where at some point in their | | | | The reports on the comprehensive study go on to |
| childhood admitted to hospital. | | | | pronounce "An excess risk of severe morbidity from |
| The Tobacco Control web site has published the | | | | both respiratory and other infections for all infants |
| results of a study that followed in excess of seven | | | | exposed to second hand smoke suggests that such |
| thousand babies born in Hong Kong during the first | | | | exposure, as well as acting via direct contact with the |
| three months of 1997 | | | | respiratory tract, may also affect the immune system." |
| The youngsters were closely monitored over an 8 | | | | So to sum up the study confirms that individual who |
| year period and researchers compiled the final results. | | | | chose to smoke tobacco products are not only |
| The research studies exposed that babies who | | | | causing untold damage to their own health and |
| experienced a lower than average birth weight were | | | | wellbeing but also bring about severe damage to their |
| susceptible to significantly bigger risks of infection. | | | | children and close family. |
| Children exposed to tobacco smoke were 75% more | | | | |