| As you stand in line at the pharmacy
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| | their little lungs. It has also been
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| picking up the prescription for ADD
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| | connected to chronic ear infections. For
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| medication for your eight-year old child,
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| | those of us who have gone through endless
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| your mind wanders back to the
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| | sleepless nights with a crying child,
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| conversation you had with his doctor.
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| | multiple rounds of antibiotics, steroids
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| "Did Johnny have recurring ear infections
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| | and tubes, ear infections are the stuff
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| as a child?"
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| | of nightmares. All children are
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| "Yes"
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| | susceptible to ear infections in the
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| "Did he have respiratory infections as
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| | first eighteen months, but those who
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| well?"
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| | breathe in secondhand hand have an even
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| "Yes"
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| | greater risk of chronic ear infections,
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| "Ma'am, does anyone in your household
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| | which may lead to hearing loss.
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| smoke?"
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| | Finally, children of smokers,
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| "I do, why? Is that somehow related?"
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| | particularly mothers who smoked while
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| "Unfortunately, ma'am, studies have shown
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| | pregnant have a much greater likelihood
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| a connection between secondhand smoke and
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| | of experiencing a non-verbal learning
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| all of these issues"
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| | disability like hyperactivity. If not
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| Too stunned to really hear much more of
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| | than, then a potential learning
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| the conversation, you walk out of that
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| | disability connected to the same exposure
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| office holding a prescription for your
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| | to smoke. If you have children, or want
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| now-hyperactive son wondering if you are
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| | to have children consider the risks of
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| responsible for his issues.
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| | secondhand smoke. For their sake, if not
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| Don't let this happen to you! Become
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| | yours, talk to your doctor about
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| educated to the hazardous effects of
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| | medication, for example Chantix and stop
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| secondhand smoke on children, then stop
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| | smoking before it is their health or
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| smoking before the little one in your
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| | their brain that suffers.
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| house becomes nicotine's latest little
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| | There are many stop smoking solutions
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| victim.
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| | like for example Chantix, a stop smoking
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| The Effects of Cigarette Smoke on
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| | aid from Pfizer, recently approved by the
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| Children:
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| | FDA. It acts on the same areas in the
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| One of the most frequently affected areas
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| | brain as nicotine by provide similar
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| in the bodies of children whose parents
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| | stimuli. The effect of this is to reduce
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| smoke is the lungs. Sadly, these
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| | the horrid withdrawal symptoms. It also
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| children are more prone to everything
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| | blocks nicotine, should the smoker start
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| from sinus infections to much more
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| | back to old habits. Isn't it time to ask
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| serious chronic respiratory problems.
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| | yourself whether you would rather stand
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| Moreover, these children are more prone
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| | in a pharmacy for a prescription for
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| to bronchitis and even pneumonia. So, if
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| | hyperactivity medication or stand there
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| you won't use a cure stop smoking for
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| | for a stop smoking aid like Chantix
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| yourself, then do it for your little
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| | potentially preventing such health and
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| one's respiratory health.
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| | educational risks for your son or
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| Secondhand smoke doesn't just affect
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| | daughter?
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