Scientists from Tasmania and Finland have found that passive smoking can be hazardous for youngsters as it can result in irreversible harm to the structure of youngsters' arteries.

The study distributed in the European Heart Journal found that kids whose parents smoked had thicker arteries and especially later in life.

The University of Tasmania's Dr Seana Gall says that passive smoking can add three years of age to the blood vessels of exposed children when they achieve adulthood.

She said, "What that recommends to us is that the impact of the passive smoke presentation on the courses is something that happens in youth."

Also it stays all around life as an influence on the arteries so its truly imperative regarding getting the message through that youngsters ought not be exposed to passive smoke.

Introduction to passive or used smoke throughout youth causes irreversible harm to the structure of kids' arteries, it was finally concluded.

Thickening of the courses in kids from homes where both folks smoked abandons them at more defined danger for heart attack and stroke as grown-ups. Analysts found that in these kids, the arteries of such kids aged faster than their counterparts.