World Anti- Tobacco Day , Infants and Children So Passive Smokers are more severely than active smokers

The campaign ' Stop Smoking ' to mark World Anti-Tobacco Day in Solo , Saturday, May 31, 2014 ( Photo : VOA / Yudha )

World Anti- Tobacco Day , Infants and Children So Passive Smokers are more severely than active smokers



Various pulmonary health care community to participate in the action " Stop Cigarette Smoke " commemorate World Anti-Tobacco Day which falls on this day , Saturday, May 31, 2014 .



Various action in Solo degree in commemoration of World Anti-Tobacco Day which falls on this day , May 31, 2014 . Various pulmonary health care community , observers of the child , to academics and students of medical colleges participating in the action " Stop Cigarette Smoke " , which is a affixing stamp palms as a symbol of support for this action .

Solo City Government began to enforce a ban on smoking in Car Free Day event ( car-free day ) along Jalan Slamet Riyadi , which is held regularly every Sunday morning . Even in recent weeks, there is a sweeping team move action against citizens who dare smoke in the Car Free Day .

City Government also provides a smoking room or the Smoking Room at various government and public facilities , but is less effective because there are many people who smoke in the outdoors .

Krisnadi , a street vendors ( PKL ) at Manahan Solo on Saturday afternoon ( 31/5 ) appeared to be deep drags on his cigarette . Not far from her looks Krisnadi second child , son Permana nearly five years old , asleep in her mother's lap . White smoke billowing from the mouth Krisnadi . Krisnadi claimed to be smokers over 25 years . According Krisnadi , the anakya often admonish him to stop smoking .

" I smoked since high school , so about 1987 . Has been more than 25 years now . I am currently runs day and night just a pack of cigarettes , 12 cigarettes alone . Fit young man so insanely cigarette . Day and night can be discharged more than four packs , " said Krisnadi .

When viewed in terms of health , according to Krisnadi , smoking is indeed harmful . But if you do not smoke , he claimed dirimya be easy emotion , appetite control, and a lot of thought . " This I try to reduce smoking gradually . Immediately stop if it , so hard . Yet could . Were my kids , especially my children were toddlers , often admonish me , says Pak do not smoke , then you know cough , shortness of breath later you know sir , " he explained .

Family Krisnadi be a picture of the role of the family and the environment is very important to minimize the dangers of smoking . This condition relates to the patients at the Center for Lung Health in Solo . The agency head , Doctor Hutomo Priyo Sigit , said 60 percent of patients in the Center for Lung Health in Solo is due to smoking . Sigit emphasized the dangers of smoking have started to smoke exposed infants and children .

" ( In ) One year , where we were received about 60 thousand patients . Approximately 60 percent , so that about 36 thousand patients due to the impact of smoking . So the proportion of patients in the health check where we were even more miserable for us and it 's harder to recover their lung condition ( to ) snap back as usual , " said Priyo Sigit Hutomo doctor .

" Lung them ( due to smoking ) supposing that it has been deformed , damaged .. can not repair not . And that is a major issue , now it is starting to get patients aged children and babies that we handle for lung health problems due to family or their environment much smoking , " he added .

According to doctors Priyo Sigit Hutomo , the problem is not on the smokers themselves , but also the immediate family who daily exposed to cigarette smoke . Many infants or children due to respiratory illness in the family and there is a smoking environment . More passive smokers are affected or the dangers of smoking than those who smoke .VOA