{"id":450,"date":"2011-03-05T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2011-03-05T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T18:41:42","slug":"kids-ear-infections-drop-dramatically-partly-because-of-drop-in-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Kids’ ear infections drop dramatically — partly because of drop in smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fascinating story<\/a> I read yesterday.<\/p>\n

Health officials report that over the last 15 years, ear infections among children have dropped a whopping 30 percent. Wow!<\/p>\n

One of the reasons ear infections have dropped so much is believed to be a concurrent drop in smoking (other factors are mentioned, but I believe the drop in smoking is a big one.). Not only are fewer people smoking, but more people who do smoke have bought a clue about not smoking around their k\"\"<\/a>ids.<\/p>\n

I had constant ear infections as a kid, and still have problems with my ears today. I had my tonsils taken out, adenoids removed, tubes put in my ears. Didn’t do any good. Because back then, people didn’t make the connection between secondhand smoke and ear infections in kids. (Though I still shake my head that my parents could never figure out that their six packs a day were contributing to my chronic bronchitis.)<\/p>\n

It’s pretty much taken as fact now, except by the Forces.org weasels, that secondhand smoke is a huge contributor to kids’ ear infections. This article explains the mechanism pretty well. Kids get ear infections often times after colds and flus, because the lining in ear tissue would become inflamed. Inflamed tissue then would become more easily infected.<\/p>\n

Well, cigarette smoke causes the same kind of tissue inflammation in kids’ ears as colds and flus, making kids more vulnerable to infections.<\/p>\n

According to the CDC, about 88 percent of nonsmokers (including children) were being exposed to other people’s cigarette smoke in 1990. That figure dropped to 40 percent in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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One of the reasons ear infections have dropped so much is believed to be a concurrent drop in smoking (other factors are mentioned, but I believe the drop in smoking … Continue reading Kids’ ear infections drop dramatically — partly because of drop in smoking<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,59],"tags":[121,173],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secondhand-smoke","category-smoking-around-kids","tag-ear-infections","tag-secondhand-smoke-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-7g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3965,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3965","url_meta":{"origin":450,"position":0},"title":"Ah, the good ol’ days, when people really smoked around babies","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"October 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I normally try to stay clear from partisan politics here, but here is a funny video from MoveOn.org about Trump's campaign slogan of \"Make America Great Again.\" In the video, two women dressed in 1950s pearls and hoop skirts sing about the good ol' days of sexual harassment, domestic abuse,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Donald Trump"","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=847"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?fit=632%2C353&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?fit=632%2C353&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?fit=632%2C353&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3087,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3087","url_meta":{"origin":450,"position":1},"title":"Study: Kids’ exposure to secondhand smoke raises danger of heart disease as adults","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"April 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A study recently released out of Finland suggests that secondhand smoke not only damages lung health around kids, it damages their circulatory system to the point of raising the risk of heart disease when they are adults. 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