Smoking is one of the worst addictions there is. The reason is that it does not just affect the smoker but rather the innocent people around them as well. The dangerous effects of secondhand smoking can be clearly seen in children whose parents smoke around them. These children suffer many health problems and have a significantly smaller lifespan. Children who have been exposed to smoking by their parents have several negative health problems. The walls of their blood vessels start thickening which increases their risk of heart attack and stroke in the future. This information has been published in European journals related to the heart. 'Passive smoking' i.e. secondhand smoking causes long-term damage to the blood arteries of children. Apart from this, their blood vessels also develop prematurely. The researchers found in their study that the health of more than 2,000 children between the ages of three and 18 years of age, both of whose parents smoked cigarettes, were at ...