Most Vulnerable Children Exposed To Cigarette Smoke Pollution And Stunting Impact

JAKARTA - Head of the National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) Hasto Wardoyo highlighted cigarette smoke as one of the closest and much of the air pollution regarding children. "Actually, what we are worried about is that when it comes to air pollution, the closest (in the neighborhood of children) is cigarettes," said Head of BKKBN Hasto Wardoyo when met by ANTARA Wednesday, June 14, Hasto said as many as 48 percent of men in Indonesia are active smokers, which means that the environment around the home area of 48 percent of Fertile Age Couples (PUS) must be shrouded in cigarette smoke. As is well known, cigarettes contain a lot of harmful substances that are not good for the body, such as carbon monoxide, nicotine, tar, hydrogen cyanide, to arsenic. "I hope those who smoke are self-aware. If the pregnant wife does not smoke indoors, this is about air pollution (which is harmful to the health of the family)," said Hasto. According to him, it is not only cigarette smoke that must be watched out for, but also chemicals that like to be sprayed into food ingredients such as vegetables. Hasto gave an example of one of them a spray (spray) plant containing synthetic organs that are commonly used by farmers to kill pests either in the form of insects, fungions, funcane, or sticks. The zat contained in the spray will later stick, then create a food chain in an ecosystem becomes unhealthy. He made an analogy if the leaves are sprayed by organofosphate and stick, animals such as goats will enjoy and settle in the body. Then humans will eat and settle in the body.''

Thus he appealed to the whole family to be more careful and sensitive to the dangers of various factors that cause pollution in the surrounding environment. Hasto hopes that each party can work together to create a clean and healthy environment for the family, so that the nation's generation avoids various diseases or other dangerous things.