A farmers market is healthy a place where parents and
children go to purchase fresh fruit and fresh veggies, but secondhand smoke may
be preventing them from breathing in fresh air. Secondhand smoke is especially
harmful to children. Studies show that older children whose parents smoke get
sick more often. Their lungs grow less than children who do not breathe
secondhand smoke, and they’re more likely to get bronchitis and pneumonia. Sure,
they can get those diseases in other ways but it’s not fair that children get
sick because of other person’s choices. Wheezing and coughing are more common
in children who breathe secondhand smoke. There is already a good amount of
children who are born with asthma, and secondhand smoke is just making it more
likely for kids without it to develop it. Secondhand smoke can trigger an
asthma attack in a child. Children with asthma who are around secondhand smoke
have more severe and frequent asthma attacks. This can also make a healthy
farmers market look deadly. A severe asthma attack can put a child’s life in
danger. Imagine a child having an attack while buying fresh foods with his
parents in a farmers market just because there is an adult smoking near them. Children
who have adults smoking around them also get more ear infections. They have
fluid in their ears more often and have more operations to put in ear tubes for
drainage. That is gross and it’s making it harder for children to hear. The California
Air Resources Board adopted a regulatory amendment that identified secondhand
smoke as a toxic air contaminant- an outdoor air pollutant that may cause or
contribute to an increase in deaths or in serious illness- and it may pose a
present or potential hazard to human health. Smoking doesn’t only affect the
individuals who are inhaling it; it affects everyone they smoke around.
Secondhand smoke is a serious matter and should be stopped from spreading
anywhere, possible starting at healthy farmers markets.
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