It is even harder for children to avoid secondhand smoke. In the United States, nine million children under the age of five live in homes with at least one smoker. Research shows that these children are sick more often than children who live in homes where no one smokes. The damaging effects of secondhand smoke on children also continue as they grow up. The children of smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer when they are adults as children of nonsmokers. The risk is even higher for children who live in homes where both parents smoke. People are becoming very aware of the danger of secondhand smoke. As a result, they have passed laws that prohibit people from smoking in many public places. Currently, 45 states in the United States have laws that restrict, or limit, smoking. The most well-known law forbids people to smoke on short domestic airline flights, i.e., flights within the country. After smoking for most of her life, Evelyn Gilson has finally quit. She feels that if more people know about the dangers of secondhand smoke, they will stop, too. Her decision comes too late to help her husband. However, there is still time to protect the health of others, especially children, who live with smokers.
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