Take steps to make your car smokefree
Secondhand smoke can become even more concentrated in a car. Even with a window cracked opening, your fellow passengers, chilcren and pets will still inhale cancer causing smoke.
Breathing secondhand smoke can be harmful to children's health including asthma, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), bronchitis and pneumonia and ear infections.
Secondhand smoke is responsible for increases in the number of asthma attacks and severity of symptoms in 200,000 to 1 million children with asthma
Secondhand smoke is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections (for children under 18 months of age); and, (3) respiratory tract infections resulting in 7,500 to 15,000 hospitalizations each year.