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Tenn. Program Taps Kids in Smoking Fight
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A former smoker who has tried for years to get adults to kick the habit has found an effective new weapon, the children of the smokers.
Deborah Blockmon came up with the approach during her work for the Nashville REACH 2010 project, which is part of a national effort to eliminate disparities in the health status of black and white Americans.
Blockmon had been conducting smoking-cessation workshops for adults but she found few takers. She got a different response when she talked to children at day care centers about the effort to get adults to quit smoking.
"I asked them if anyone in their family smoked and they said yes and they told me how it smells bad and makes them cough," she said.
Blockmon came up with some songs the kids could sing every time someone lit a cigarette in their presence.
Children ages 3 to 6 at Schrader Lane Childcare Center, learned this song to the tune of "Three Blind Mice."
"I won't smoke. I won't smoke; When I grow up I won't smoke; It'll make you choke (cough). It'll make you choke (cough); When I grow up I won't smoke."
The kids loved it - especially singing out the coughing part.
Blockmon said she soon began to hear from parents who wanted to quit or learn more about the effects of secondhand smoke on children.
"When we hear children say things that we know we didn't teach them, we stop and listen," she said. "We ask them, where did you hear that? That opens the door to talk about smoking."
A June report by the U.S. surgeon general concluded that secondhand smoke causes serious problems for nonsmokers, raising their risks of heart disease and lung cancer. More than one in five children breathes their parents' smoke, making them more vulnerable to sudden infant death syndrome, bronchitis, pneumonia, worsening asthma attacks, poor lung growth and ear infections, the report found.
Blockmon, who smoked for 17 years, said her own children suffered from chronic asthma and severe bronchial infections. She finally quit five years ago.
"I think people really don't understand the effect smoking has on their children," said Dr. Kelsey Hamilton, a Nashville pediatrician.
"I see children keep coming back and they reek of smoke, but the parents can't understand why the kid can't shake an infection. They want us to give them medicine to stop the infection, but it's their smoking that impairs the child's ability to fight the infection off," Hamilton said.
Blockmon said the children can reach their parents in a way other adults can't.
"The children are powerful change agents," Blockmon said. "Children have no agenda and that gets adults' attention."
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