Children whose parents smoke die more often from chronic lung diseases, scientists warn.
Exposure to tobacco smoke for ten or more hours per week increases the risk of death from ischemic heart disease by 27 percent.
The risk of stroke is higher by 23 percent, and of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by 42 percent, compared to people who lived with non-smokers.
The consequence of passive cigarette consumption in childhood is the death of 7.000 to 100.000 adult non-smokers annually.
Experts say that quitting smoking is the best way to protect a child from the bad effects of tobacco.
A scientific study was conducted on 70.900 adult non-smokers, and the results were published in the "American Journal of Preventive Medicine", reports Nezavisne.
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