Each year an estimated 3,000 nonsmokers die of lung cancer, and 150,000 to 300,000 infants and children under 18 months experience lower respiratory tract infections.

• Asthma and other respiratory conditions often are triggered or worsened by tobacco smoke.

• Babies of mothers who smoked two or more packs a day score lower on developmental tests administered at birth and the long-term studies in progress are showing that these children don’t catch up developmentally.

• Children who grow up around secondhand smoke experience an increased number of respiratory and ear infections, are more likely to develop asthma, bronchitis and pneumonia and as infants have a FOUR times greater risk of dying from SIDS.

• Care must also be taken with tobacco products because infants and toddlers who ingest tobacco suffer nicotine poisoning. Because of their smaller body size even small amounts of nicotine can be deadly.