Do you know:

Around two million children under the age of five die each year from acute respiratory infections, the top killer of young children.
Air pollution - whether indoors from fuel consumption or tobacco smoke or outdoors from traffic and industrial pollution, is a serious risk factor for respiratory disease, a major contributor to ill-health among children around the world
Air pollution is a major environment-related health threat to children and a risk factor for both acute and chronic respiratory disease as well as other diseases. Around 2 million children under five die every year from acute respiratory infections. Many are aggravated by environmental hazards.
Indoor air pollution is a major factor associated with acute respiratory infections in both rural and urban areas of developing countries. A pollutant released indoors is often more dangerous to a child’s lungs than a pollutant released outdoors.
Strategies to combat these threats are often inexpensive. Yet they can reap great benefits for the children who live, play and grow in those settings
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Protecting children from smoking and from second-hand tobacco smoke reduces the risk of respiratory disorders and other ill-health effects later in life.
To create healthy environments for children: make public places smoke free in your community.