To date, smoking is the most serious social and medical problem, which is growing from year to year. The situation is aggravated by the fact that smokers become in adolescence and even childhood. According to statistics, on average, by the age of 15, more than 30% of adolescents already suffer from this addiction. Meanwhile, the consequences of smoking for children and adolescents can be very deplorable. In the future, this leads to the emergence of many diseases, including incurable ones.

effects of smoking on children Children and teenagers are not fully aware of the damage that smoking does to a growing body. They have pronounced disorders in the work of the nervous and cardiovascular systems. They are irritable, excitable, quick-tempered and inattentive. Such children are characterized by increased aggressiveness and poor school performance. American scientists found that in more than 50% of cases they suffer from memory impairment and are not able to memorize even a simple verse or text.

Childhood nicotine addiction develops at a very rapid pace. After 2-3 days after the start of smoking, a persistent craving for a cigarette is developed, which prevents the child from concentrating on studying. He develops feelings of discomfort and anxiety associated with the desire to quickly smoke a cigarette.

Teenagers who smoke suffer from metabolic disorders in the body. This causes a lack of vitamins and trace elements, which begin to be poorly absorbed from foods and multivitamins. In addition, vitamin C is destroyed, which leads to a weakened immune system, causing frequent colds and the onset of chronic diseases at an early age.

Smoking inhibits the development of the skeleton and the growth of the child. It causes anemia, visual disturbances and inflammation of the nasopharynx. Young smokers perceive low sounds worse than other children.

The consequences of smoking for children can be manifested in disruption of the reproductive system. Problems usually arise already in adulthood, when young people decide to become parents.

The danger also lies in the fact that, even after a person quits smoking, negative consequences still appear sooner or later. They affect the health of the former smoker, as well as the health status of his offspring.

No less dangerous for a child is passive smoking, which children in modern young families are often exposed to. It causes various kinds of disorders in the work of the respiratory system. Children with smoking parents quite often suffer from inflammation of the lungs, bronchi, mucous membranes of the eyes and nose, as well as changes in some psychomotor functions, the ability to assimilate and remember information.

Thus, the consequences of smoking for children are manifested throughout their later life, as well as the life of their future offspring.