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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science ISSN: 2501 - 1235 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1235 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu doi: 10.5281/zenodo.838019 Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 COMPARISON OF RESPIRATORY PARAMETERS OF CHILDREN WITH SMOKING AND NON-SMOKING PARENTS Tuncay Erçini*, Bekir Mendeş, Mustafa Özdal Gaziantep University, Physical Education and Sport Department, Gaziantep, Turkey Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of passive smoking on children by comparing some of the respiratory parameters of the children of smoker and non- smoker parents. A total of 200 students, aged 12-14 years, were participated in the study, including 100 students who were exposed to smoke and 100 students who were not exposed to smoke. The age, body weight and respiratory functions of the students were measured. Respiratory parameters were assessed as forced vital capacity (FVC), maximal voluntary ventilation (MVV), vital capacity (VC) data. The independent t test was used in the analysis of the obtained data. Significant differences were found among the groups in all of the age, height and respiration parameters of males and females (p<0.05). When the significant difference in VC values examined, there was no difference in FVC and MVV values between groups of respiratory parameters of passive smokers and non-smokers (p>0.05), significant differences were found in VC values (p <0.05). As a result, we found that VC which is the respiratory functions in children who were exposed to cigarette smoke was affected negatively in our study. Changing parent's smoking behavior will contribute to increased quality of life of children who exposed to cigarette smoke. Keywords: respiratory function, child, smoking Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 82 Tuncay Erçin, Bekir Mendeş, Mustafa Özdal COMPARISON OF RESPIRATORY PARAMETERS OF CHILDREN WITH SMOKING AND NON-SMOKING PARENTS 1. Introduction Smoking poses a serious risk to the health of the user, and the health of others who share the same environment with him (1). It is estimated that approximately one billion people in the 21st century will lose their lives due to illnesses caused by smoking if the smoking pattern continues as it is (2). The fact that the smoke is responsible for the harms reveals that the non-smokers are also at risk. It is known that children, elderly and sick individuals, who are the most vulnerable part of society, will suffer more harm than smoking. Smoke is emerged the result of the leaves of the tobacco plant not completely burning. The substances contained in the smoke are present in the gas and particulate phase. The type of tobacco, the combustion temperature, the length of the smoke, the nature of the paper, the filter and the additives matter added to tobacco are the main reasons affecting the smoke gas and particulate (3). Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is known as smoke emitted from a burning smoke or other tobacco product, or exhaled by a smoker (4). Among passive smokers, children are groups with the highest risk to the society with their different physiological and developmental characteristics according to adults. In addition to these features, the fact that children cannot protect themselves from smoke is also known as a situation that increases the influence (5,6). It is observed that the exposure of environmental tobacco smoke among children in the world is between 40-75% (7,8). In our country this rate is determined as 53-70% (8,9). In Western countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 700 million children are exposed to smoke in the 1980s and 1990s, although smoking among adults was declined (3). In this study, we examined the effect of this exposure on the parameters of respiratory function in our country (10), where close to 75% of children are regularly exposed to passive smoking; unlike other studies, it is aimed to be evaluated by physiological measurements. For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejep/article/view/929 European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science - Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 83