Ini adalah dapatan dari Persatuan Kesihatan Sedunia WHO. Kanak-kanak lebih 
berisiko menghidap penyakit seperti asma serta masalah pernafasan yang boleh 
membawa maut akibat asap rokok terutama dari bapa mereka yang merokok. Merokok 
bukan di tempat yang terbuka mendatangkan risiko asap rokok pasif kepada mereka 
yang tidak merokok. 
 
Sayangilah anak-anak, keluarga serta rakan-rakan kita. 
 
More than 600,000 people, including 165,000 children, die every year from 
passive smoking, a report from World Health Organisation experts says today.
 
The biggest impact on children is in the developing world. "Two-thirds of these 
deaths occur in Africa and south Asia," the authors write in the medical 
journal The Lancet. "Children's exposure to second-hand smoke most likely 
happens at home.
 
In 2004, the most recent year with comprehensive data, passive smoking is 
estimated to have caused an estimated 379,000 deaths from ischaemic heart 
disease, 165,000 from lower respiratory infections, 36,900 from asthma and 
21,400 from lung cancer - around 1% of deaths worldwide.
 
Children are unable to escape second-hand smoke at home. They are more likely 
than adults to suffer health damage from passive smoking, such as asthma or 
breathing problems.
 
To protect women and children, they say that education campaigns on the dangers 
of indoor smoking are needed.
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/26/passive-smoking-deaths-who-report 

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