How does secondhand smoking affects kids?

Detrimentally Very Detrimentally

It saves them about 拢6,000,000 a year.

the same as car fumes.

Badly of course. At the very least they are having to inhale smoke into their little lungs. If you smoke yourself then you should always do it outside

The same way as adults. My sister-in-law and her husband smoked from when their kids were born and the three children have had asthma from an early age.

somehow it's been known to cause ear infections in children, not sure why

it also affects the development of the left hemisphere of the brain which is responsible for math and numbers, logic, etc and children subjected to second hand smoke are said to have problems with this as they get older

second hand smoke has been known to cause all kinds of respiratory disease in children, emphasema, and stomach cancer too

it causes problems with the olfactory senses that makes children have a difficult time enjoying natural foods like fruits and veggies, which increases their chances of becoming obese

plus it makes children stink so bad that no one wants to be their friend

They breathe in the smoke and it gets in their lungs.

Cigarette Smoke Causes Breaks in DNA, Mutates Chromosomes
Results Presented at 35th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30 鈥?The amount of smoke in just one or two puffs of a cigarette can cause
breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, leading to irreversible changes in genetic
information being passed to a newly divided cell, according to University of Pittsburgh researchers.
Their findings, to be reported Tuesday, Oct. 5 at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Environmental
Mutagen Society, are the first to show that cigarette smoke causes chromosome instability.
The meeting, "Genes, Mutations and Disease: The Environmental Connection," will be held Oct. 2
to 6 at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers.
While most research has focused on the changes in DNA sequence caused by cigarette smoke,
little attention has been given to how smoke affects genomic stability of cells. In laboratory studies
using human fibroblasts, common cells found in connective tissue, William S. Saunders, PhD, and
colleagues discovered that exposure to even a small amount of cigarette smoke condensate 鈥?br> equal to about 1/25 of a cigarette 鈥?caused breaks to both strands of DNA and compromised the
integrity of the cell's chromosomes.
Cigarette smoke contains some 5,000 organic compounds, including chemicals known to cause
cancers.

Cigarette Smoke Blocks Cell Repair Mechanism, Study Shows
Science Daily 鈥?Cigarette smoke can turn normal breast cells cancerous by
blocking their ability to repair themselves, eventually triggering tumor
development, University of Florida scientists report.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

There have been NO studies on long term effects of second hand smoke on children...regardless of the expert answers here thus far. Is it good? Heck no...if you still smoke, do it outside. Smoker's houses stink!

car emissions,dust in the air can be worse