![]() ![]() He has not cracked down on “extreme Jewish nationalists, who have been acting in a very violent way for years.” Shavit praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for preventing violence, but “he should be criticized, very much so, for not controlling the extremists in his government.” “The extremists have taken the lead and might dictate their will and their way to the moderates.” And the result is that all of the above are responsible for this escalation, with extremists on both sides are leading the way and might create major, major violence in the coming days.”īoth the Israeli and Palestinians have “wasted five precious years” of calm, he said, scuttling any real attempts at reaching peace. “We didn’t have American leadership we didn’t have Israeli courage we didn’t have moderate Palestinian strength. “No one is holy here,” Shavit said of current tensions. “The danger, the great danger tonight, is that after the Israeli action that must come now, we will have more rockets shooting into Israel and a real escalation.” “But Hamas – that kept on saying it wants to stop escalation – fired dozens of rockets into Israel in the last few hours, and Israel will not be able to be restrained anymore.” We’ve seen remarkable restraint on the behalf of the Israeli government – quite surprisingly for many, a right-wing, conservative government led by Benjamin Netanyahu did everything possible not to get into another war or cycle of violence. “For the last few days we’ve seen extraordinary attempts to stop the escalation. Tensions have already been high, with tit-for-tat violence a 16-year-old Palestinian was kidnapped and burned alive, itself a possible act of retaliation for the deaths of three Israeli teenagers. I do not want to over-dramatize, but the last few hours may have been, God forbid, the tipping point.” However, smoking indoors can be eliminated," they say.The latest airstrikes Monday night between Hamas and Israel may presage a serious escalation in violence between the two sides, Ari Shavit, senior correspondent for Ha'aretz, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday. "Few sources of indoor air pollution can be completely eliminated. Wipfli and Samet say educating and empowering women can make a big difference is protecting children and non-smoking adults from the deadly effects of secondhand smoke. In an accompanying commentary, they emphasize the need for smoke-free homes, which can help lower the number of people sickened and dying from someone else's smoke. Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli, two leading public health experts from the University of Southern California say their research from 31 countries found that 88 percent of parents who smoked did so at home and that over 80 percent smoked near their children. Researchers believe more needs to be done to create complete smoke-free indoor environments at work, in public places and on public transportation. The more than 1 billion smokers are exposing billions of non-smokers to one of the top indoor pollutants according to the WHO. Previous studies have found that even extremely low levels of exposure to cigarette smoke produced detectable abnormal genetic activity in these cells. Just two months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that found more than half of children in the United States, between ages 3 and 11 show signs in their blood of exposure to secondhand smoke. The study authors estimate that 165,000 children under the age of 5 die each year from lower respiratory infections caused by second-hand smoke – and most of these deaths occur in Africa and south Asia. More than 80 percent of the more than 1 billion smokers worldwide live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest. "Tobacco use is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced," says the WHO. Based on 2004 data gathered from 192 countries, researchers estimate "as many as 40 percent of children, 35 percent of women, and 33 percent of men are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke indoors," according to a WHO study published in the British medical journal The Lancet. That's about one person dying every six seconds.īut just how many people are sickened by secondhand smoke has been less clear, which led researchers to try to investigate how big the problem is. Health officials have known that more than 1 billion people around the world smoke and 5 million people die each year from tobacco-related illness, according to the World Health Organization. 1 in 100 people around the world die from secondhand smoke each year, a new study reveals, and nearly two-thirds of the deaths occur in children. ![]()
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