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Smoking brings another danger to children in Japan

Department of International Community Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; shinji@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Accepted 7 June 2005

Keywords: smoking; children; public safety

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The other day, I was walking in a crowded street near a subway station in Tokyo with my 7 year old son. He was so curious that he frequently stopped to look at something before running to catch up me. Predictably, he ran into a man who was walking and holding a lit cigarette which fell after their collision. I feared that the lit cigarette might hit my son in his face or eye. However, he did not sustain any injury because the cigarette only touched his hair.

In-street smoking while walking is becoming prevalent as most public places, including stations, workplaces, and schools, have become non-smoking zones. Smokers, prohibited from smoking in trains and stations, light cigarettes once they get to the street.¹ They are usually holding cigarettes at their chest or waist levels, equivalent to the face level of children or people in wheelchairs.

When walking, smokers tend . . . [Full text of this article]