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Breathe easy

Breathe easy. An initiative to clean up the air for our children The National Health Institute. NHI’s Breath-Easy Initiative. An outgrowth of NHI’s commitment to health and wellness Spearheaded by parents, who want cleaner air for their children

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Breathe easy

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  1. Breathe easy An initiative to clean up the air for our children The National Health Institute

  2. NHI’s Breath-Easy Initiative • An outgrowth of NHI’s commitment to health and wellness • Spearheaded by parents, who want cleaner air for their children • Encourage people to reduce air pollution indoors and outdoors • Newsletters • Conferences • Seminars • Promotional materials • Special task force targets smokers because of the harmful effects of secondhand smoke

  3. What is Secondhand Smoke? • Smoke exhaled by a smoker • Smoke from the burning end of cigarettes, cigars, and pipes • Composed of nearly 4,000 different chemicals and chemical components • Often called involuntary smoking or passive smoking

  4. Why Should Parents Be Concerned? • Effect on lungs • Children who breathe secondhand smoke are more likely to suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis, and other lung diseases. • Ear infections • Children who breathe secondhand smoke can have more ear infections. • Asthma • Children who breathe secondhand smoke have more asthma attacks and the episodes can be more severe. • Secondhand smoke causes healthy children to develop asthma each year.

  5. Secondhand Smoke is a Health Risk to the Unborn Child • Miscarriage • Premature birth • Low birth weight • Sudden infant death syndrome

  6. Living With a Smoker Makes a Child More Likely to Smoke Source: Pennsylvania Youth Tobacco Survey, 2006-7, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Division of Tobacco Control & Prevention

  7. Health Risks of Secondhand Smoke

  8. Did You Know That…? • Infants whose mothers smoked were 38 percent more likely to be admitted to the hospital for bronchitis and pneumonia. • Children living in households where more than three packs of cigarettes were smoked per day were four times more likely to be hospitalized for ear tubes. • Children younger than one year whose mothers smoked were four times more likely to be hospitalized.

  9. Children of Smokers • Cough and wheeze more and have a harder time getting over colds • Get more sore throats and colds • Get eye irritations and hoarseness

  10. What Can You Do?

  11. Take Three Pledges:

  12. And Support NHI’s Breathe-Easy Inititaive Buy a Breathe-Easy Button Today! www.breatheeasy.org

  13. Thanks for Letting Us Breathe Easier

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