Smoking is the dangerous practicing habit that people can’t resist to avoid. you will not believe how people love to smoke even they know about the harmful consequences. The bad thing is there are some parents who don’t care about the environment even babies. Now, what are the risks of smoking around the babies? Let’s check them.

Why is it bad to smoke around babies?

Smoking is dangerous as it causes weak lungs, ear infection and increases the risk of SIDS. Now why the smoke is so harmful? Well, the smoke contains harmful chemicals like carbon monoxide and nicotine etc. the chemicals get to stick to any things of the house like furniture, walls, carpets, and toys, so it gets easy to get contact in the baby’s body. I guess it is enough to prove the high risk of smoking of the babies.

The effects of smoking:

•    Smoking is a preventable cause of gaining weight. If the smoker parents have a baby in the home, then the baby will have growth problem and the baby will stay underweighted. Even a pregnant woman will have low weight baby for the smoking.

•    The fatal risk of smoking around the baby is SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). The baby who dies from this syndrome gets high absorption of nicotine.

•    A baby who grows up in a smoking environment struggles in learning and have problems in reading also.

•    Some babies have a problem with behavior problem especially smoker’s babies. They suffer from conduct disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Some baby faces a problem like other behavior problems, depression, hyperactivity, and aggression.

•    The smoke exposure increases the highest rates of respiratory tract infection like pneumonia and bronchitis and they do give a long risk effect for a long time.

•     Children’s get asthma attack frequently for the smoke exposure and the attack sometimes takes life.

•    Baby may get ear infections for the smoking.

•    Researches have stated that babies who are exposed to smoking have a higher risk to suffer from brain tumors, lymphoma, and leukemia.

•    There is one study stated that smoke exposure may cause damage and breaking of DNA. It is a highly fatal disease.

Here are top risks for smoking around the babies. The risk is not only for the babies but also on adults. As the little ones are vulnerable they get affected early with high risk. Smoking cigarettes or tobacco is not good for health but people just can’t help it. Sigh to them.