Parental smoking is also a factor in sudden infant death syndrome and is associated with higher rates of respiratory illnesses, including bronchitis, colds and pneumonia in children. About one-third of the world's adults were smokers at the beginning of this decade, and there is little sign that this proportion has changed substantially since. Tobacco use among adolescents remains stubbornly persistent. Smoking prevalence among adolescents rose in the 1990s in several developed countries . Tobacco and smoke concern us all, smokers and non-smokers alike.
Tobacco is everybody's problem.
It is a major public health issue that demands urgent action now.