{"id":418,"date":"2009-10-27T00:12:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T13:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=418"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:12:27","slug":"quit-smoking-around-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/quit-smoking-around-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit smoking around kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hecqgcWEQQI.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#hecqgcWEQQI\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hecqgav1CAI.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#hecqgav1CAI\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>The Hon Daniel Andrews, MP, Minister for Health launched a new anti-smoking ad campaign at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital today.<\/p>\n<p>The Quit Victoria campaign, titled &#8216;Cigarettes are eating you and your kids alive&#8217; urges smokers to consider the health of their children before lighting up.<\/p>\n<p>The launch follows the release of new research by the Cancer Council Victoria that found nearly half of Victoria&#8217;s cigarette smokers smoke around children.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rob Roseby of the RCH Centre for Adolescent Health supported the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The list of potential problems for children of smokers is a long, sad catalogue,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children and toddlers are exposed primarily at the home, and then later at places like child care or shopping centres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If a parent smokes their child has increased risks of low birth weight, SIDS, pneumonia, asthma, ear disease and meningococcal disease.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quit.org.au\/\">Quit Victoria<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hon Daniel Andrews, MP, Minister for Health launched a new anti-smoking ad campaign at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital today. The Quit Victoria campaign, titled &#8216;Cigarettes are eating you and your kids alive&#8217; urges smokers to consider the health of their children before lighting up. The launch follows the release of new research by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/quit-smoking-around-kids\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}