Discrepant Event, Friends, Probable Solutions A FREE lesson your learners will always remember! A New DVD Film, Death March from Bataan to Manchuria: Raising a Survivor’s Voice Discrepant Event, Friends, Possible Solution & Video:   Carrie's mother, Peachy Diana Cooper Jones, smoked several packs of cigarettes daily before Carrie was born.  Peachy also smoked during her pregnancy with Carrie, and five years after Carrie was born.  Peachy died of heart failure at age forty.   Carrie's father, E. H. Jones II, earned his living as an executive at, Bright New Day Inc., an advertising company.  Carrie's father stopped smoking his first year as the vice-president of tobacco marketing at Bright New Day, Inc.  Carrie's father lived to be eight-nine.   Carrie had been a premature baby.  Carrie weighed 4 pounds and eight ounces at birth.  Her birth health problems included underdeveloped lungs.  Carrie never smoked, nor drank alcoholic beverages.  Carrie, nevertheless, had developed a serious heart condition and lung cancer the year before she had to leave college.  Three years after returning home from college Carrie died, on her birthday.    Tobacco products remain the only consumer product that kills a high proportion of those using it.  Research shows that smoking harms future generations in families.  *Cotton, P. 1994, "Smoking Cigarettes May Do Developing Fetus More Harm Than Ingesting Cocaine, Some Experts Say." Journal of American Medical Association, (JAMA) 271:576-577.   Data from the first phase of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed, 1994, that about 15 million children were exposed to secondhand smoke.  Strong evidence illustrated that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is associated with increased risk of respiratory illnesses, asthma, anesthesia complications, sudden infant death syndrome, low birth weight, and adverse lipid profiles.  Serious effects of ETS have been issued by both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association.   Tobacco exposure is one of the most pervading and hazardous constituents children suffer through during fetal development.  Large bodies of literature link both prenatal maternal smoking and children’s ETS exposure to the unhealthy decreased growth of lungs and the increased rate of respiratory tract infections, otitis media, and childhood asthma.  The severity of these problems increase with increased exposure.  Tobacco smoke exposures are also connected to such problems as: sudden infant death syndrome, behavioral problems, heart disease, and neurocognitive decrements.  Parental smoking harbors a greater threat to the child during fetal development and the first several years of life, studies prove, than exposure to tobacco smoke from other sources.   Tobacco smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in the United States.  Smokers’ risk of heart attack is more than twice that of nonsmokers. Smokers having a heart attack are more likely to die and die suddenly (within an hour) than are nonsmokers.  The nicotine and carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke reduce the amount of oxygen in the blood.  Nicotine and carbon monoxide also damage blood vessel walls, causing plaque to build up. Tobacco smoke may trigger blood clots to form, too. Hillary on Health Care From hillaryclintondotcom Provided By: hillaryclintondotcom Hillary discusses expanding health care access for children at the Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center in New York http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfThlPR0xNM