Does inhaling cigarette smoke cause child's apetite loss?
82263
I'm not sure about that, but I think that it possibly could, because it does in adults.\nSecond hand smoke also causes cancer, so it's best to not let your child around any cigarette smoke.\n\n\n...not to mention, it just stinks really bad...
126182
There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking. \nYou may not be able to talk him into quitting. Maybe you could talk him into atleast not smoking in the house and changing his clothes before holding the baby. This will atleast help the people who have to live with this be a little healthier. Good luck to you!
474267
There are no permanent to my knowledge, other than you'll be a hypocritical parent someday.  Short term effects... cotton mouth, short term memory loss, finding stupid things hilarious (Blue Beard the Pirate or the Tick) and couch potatoitis.  How to combat the effects drink Arizona Green Ice Tea or Mountain Dew and get outdoors.\n\n(All my high school friends smoked, but I never did.  My mom used to smoke so it was a form of rebellion.)  : )
993222
Smoking has been linked to lung cancer by medical research institutions throughout the world (through the use of observational studies). Smoking men are 22 times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smoking men and smoking women are 12 times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smoking women. Cigarette smoking increases the risk for many types of cancer, including cancers of the lip, oral cavity, and pharynx; esophagus; pancreas; larynx (voice box); lung; uterine cervix; urinary bladder; and kidney [citation needed]. Recent findings by the World Health Organization suggest that U.S. white male smokers have an 8% chance of acquiring lung cancer at some point in their lives, as opposed to the 2% chance of acquiring lung cancer among U.S. white male non-smokers. Second-hand smoke has been known to increase health risks by 20% to 30% according to a recent report published by the World Health Organisation.\n\nCertain other lung disorders, like emphysema, are also linked to cigarette smoking. Both smoking and second-hand smoke during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage, underweight, and deformed infants. Smoking also increases the chance of heart attacks and a variety of cancers. Long-term smokers tend to look older than nonsmokers of the same age, because smoking can increase wrinkling in the skin.\n\nNicotine, the stimulant and active ingredient in cigarettes, is highly addictive. Children and pets may be poisoned from eating cigarettes or cigarette butts.
947623
I don't know that there is any evidence of this.  I think the danger is in inhaling the smoke of burning leaves.  \n\nIf there is any danger in your job, I would think that there would be more danger in the chemical additives used then the tobacco itself.
1125883
Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances.\n\nWhen you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins.\n\nAs a cigarette burns, the residues are concentrated towards the butt.\n\nThe products that are most damaging are:\n\n    * tar, a carcinogen (substance that causes cancer)\n\n    * nicotine is addictive and increases cholesterol levels in your body\n\n    * carbon monoxide reduces oxygen in the body\n\n    * components of the gas and particulate phases cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).\n\nThe damage caused by smoking is influenced by:\n\n    * the number of cigarettes smoked\n\n    * whether the cigarette has a filter\n\n    * how the tobacco has been prepared.
683210
No dear ..It seems that U have been misguided.Nicotine never remains in Lungs..In fact it is absorbed by our pulmonary(lung) veins...so nicotine comes in blood...and this blood when reaches brain, makes nicotine to bind to our brain-nicotinic receptors..which ultimately produces the effects of smokin....But daily smoking  produces some changes in the tissue of lungs which is continous for years can give irreversible lung changes(including cancers)...BUt research has proved n shown that stopping smoking for 10 years approx can bring your lungs to the previous state(non-smoker state)....but this above statement is condition to one thing that in this 10 years , you should'nt have developed the permanent changes..............In all smoking is very bad...But the irony is that I have been smoking for past 6 years....lol
181342
Second hand smoke = bad for kids.\n\nSimple
1148401
what you take into your body is taken into your babies body-  the chemicals and toxins in what you are smoking can cause low birth weight, premature birth, respiratory problems, etc.  For your baby's health and your own- you should refrain from smoking, or better yet quit (as second hand smokle for oyur infant and child is just as damaging) when you are preganant!
113214
Low birth weight, increased risk of birth defects, increased risk of miscarraige. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor, it constricts your blood vessels, decreasing blood flow within your body. Smoking while your pregnant will decrease the blood flow to the baby. Also nicotine crosses the placenta and can enter the baby's bloodstrem, causing vasoconstriction in the baby's developing system. It's best to quit if you're pregnant, or if you're planning to get pregnant.
913291
its fairly common especially in young, thin, smokers......or patients with emphysema
90414
I knew all of the risks involved in smoking and started anyway because I simply just wanted to fit in.  Stupid I know, but I am proud to say that I quit smoking 2 years ago.  I also lost someone close to me to cancer.  It was my mother and she died of colon cancer.  She never smoked a day in her life.  Some people die from lung cancer and never smoke either.  Smoking is a highly addictive drug.  Even though people know what could happen to them, they just don't care anymore because the nicotine has control of them.  Its sad, but true.
1002853
Yes, anytime you smoke (cigarettes, marijuana, crack, on & on) it emits dangerous and often carcigenic materials into the air. \nAs for symptoms, I'll have to pass on that one - I've never smoked speed.\nIf the "someone else" is a developing child, you are risking damaging that child's brain and growth.
875010
six months of continuous smoking does create a damage...i think u should go and take doctor's help...hope it will be nothing serious..best of luck!
275507
Not necessarily, but they will have easier access to cigarettes... (i.e. stealin' them from mom's purse etc.)  I know that's what we used to do...)  Maybe you should smoke outside and keep the cigarettes hidden.  Second hand smoke can cause serious asthma and in rare cases that asthma can cause brain damage or death in young kids.  I know because I was just involved in a court case where this happend to a little girl, so be careful.
953307
I took a look, and noticed on the kids section the following, which said that passive smoking caused:\n\n"Increased risk of coronary heart disease. \nA 10-30% increased risk of lung cancer for non-smokers who are exposed to passive smoking over long periods of time."\n\nThis is complete nonsense. There is no scientifically verifiable evidence linking passive smoking with either coronary heart disease or lung cancer: on the contrary, the largest study ever conducted with a sample of over 35,000 non-smoking spouses of smokers, by scientists from the Universities of Califonia and New York, found that there was no statistical evidence ot suggest these non-smokers (in a study which ran from 1959 to 1998) suffered greater mortality rates than non-smokers generally from either coronary heart disease or lung cancer at any time or any level of exposure.\n\nSince when did the Roy Castle Foundation engage in blatantly misleading, scaremongering propaganda?
322459
Are there any samples of others you can show him that were not good? \nYou know like a long time ago to get kids not to smoke, they would take them to a hospital and show them people on lung support systems. Some had holes in their throats to be able to breathe and they would still want a cigarette because they were addicts.