• It is not surprising that parents have the greatest influence on the lives of their children, because children are always looking for good role models to follow in all their actions and actions inside and outside the home.
• Within this framework, a recent report found that there is a strong correlation between parents' smoking habits and their children's decisions about smoking in the future.
• If the child sees one of the parents smoking, he or she may in turn do the same thing, because his mind at this time normalizes the behavior and considers it safe and free from risks, and it has been proven that children watching one of the parents participate in smoking as a social activity makes smoking more attractive to children. In addition to the above, if parents smoke, it is more difficult to have any credibility when asking their children to stop smoking.
  
  Source : https://www.futura-sciences.com/sante/questions-reponses/hygiene-vie-tabagisme-passif-il-vraiment-menace-841/

Genetic predisposition to smoking:

There is a study confirming the validity of the belief that there is a family history of tobacco use among many smokers, and the same applies to tobacco use. Studies have indicated that the genetic predisposition to metabolize nicotine or dopamine differently is very strong in children who have a family history of cigarette and tobacco smoking.

The dangers of passive smoking:

• Even if a child or adolescent does not smoke a cigarette directly, these young children remain vulnerable to multiple diseases associated with their parents smoking, even if they are not close to their children while smoking, smoke remains on children's clothes and hair.
• It is important to know that there is a rate of up to 31% of the causes of death of children due to passive smoking, or in the sense that they inhale smoke emitted from cigarettes on a daily basis. Exposure to secondhand smoke puts children at risk for serious health problems.
• These include severe asthma, shortness of breath and ear infections, due to the fact that the chemicals in cigarette smoke are passed to the lungs and airways of children, and perhaps the most common source of secondhand smoke is cigarette smoke, which has become widespread around us everywhere in the world. The house (if the father or mother smokes) and outside the house, i.e. in the streets, means of transportation, …etc.
  
  Source: https://www.topsante.com/medecine/troubles-orl/bpco/le-tabagisme-passif-chez-l-enfant-augmente-le-risque-de-bpco-a-l-age-adulte-627510

The dangers of passive smoking on children:

• Studies show that children who are exposed to secondhand smoke have smaller lungs than children who do not inhale secondhand smoke, and they are also more likely to develop bronchitis and pneumonia.
• It has also been proven that coughing is more common in children who inhale secondhand smoke.
• Secondhand smoke can trigger an asthma attack in a child, and an acute asthma attack can put a child's life at risk.
• Passive smoking is also dangerous for pets, and it can lead to poisoning.
• Passive smoking therefore increases the risk of a child practicing this habit in the near future.
  
  Source: https://www.maviesanstabac.lu/le-tabagisme-passif/

What do we do to protect our children?

• There are many things that you can do to help and protect our children from both active and passive smoking, and we mention a number of them as follows:
  • In the beginning, parents should avoid smoking inside the house, with the need to request non-smoking at home from those coming to the house.
  • Everyone must commit not to smoke inside a closed car or other closed places, out of respect for all the individuals around us.
  • Children and pregnant women should be kept away from smoking areas.
  • Officials should work to find special corners for smokers, especially in public places and restaurants.
  • It is necessary to observe the behavior of children indirectly to know the dangers that surround them and the problems that concern them and to contribute to solving them.
  • Legislators and officials should impose penalties on anyone who smokes in enclosed spaces, and these laws and rules should be a deterrent to all.
    
    Source: https://www.topsante.com/medecine/addictions/arret-du-tabac/le-tabagisme-passif-favorise-les-comportements-antisociaux-des-enfants-614438