Indoor Environmental Tobacco Smoke Impact on Respiratory System Health among Pre-School Children

The aim of this study is to discuss the indoor environmental tobacco smoke impact on respiratory health among pre-school children. We chose 24 nursery schools randomly in four districts of Jilin city and distributed 658 questionnaires to the parents from 9/2013 to 12/2013. There is 62.6% of smoking family members, and only 3.4% of non-smoking family members. In smoking family members, there is 3.1% of smokers are mothers; the morbidity rate of respiratory decease among children is higher in smoking family than in non-smoking family, asthma, cough and wheezing are much higher, especially, but there is no significance of difference in other respiratory symptoms on statistics ( p>0.05 ).Family member who are smoking affects the respiratory health of pre-school children, and there is need to decrease the smoking rate of family member via health education through publicity.