Joel and Benji Madden have become UNICEF ambassadors with hopes of curbing a preventable statistic and saving thousands of children around the world. According to Joel Madden, “Twenty-five thousand children die every day of preventable causes.”
Joel and his brother Benji recently took a trip to Africa to help the cause and filmed this short documentary to share his experiences.
Check it out below and click here to learn more about how you can help.
MySpace Exclusive – Joel Madden travels to Africa with UNICEF
Secondhand smoke, also know as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. It is involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers, lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished and can cause or exacerbate a wide range of adverse health effects in children, including SIDS (Sudden Death Infant Syndrome), cancer, respiratory infections, ear infection and asthma.
Children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in Indonesia may be 43 Million.Around one-third of smokers – million people continue to smoke near children.Smoking by parents is the principal determinant of children’s exposure to secondhand smoke.
Please navigate to http://savechildfromsmokers.blogspot.com , and join this group : SAVE CHILD FROM SMOKE (Facebook Group) : working together make a smoke-free homes and smoke-free zones for all children. Dr Widodo Judarwanto, Jakarta Indonesia