Category: Effects on Children

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Addictions/Substance Abuse/Tobacco/Secondhand Smoke/Effects on Children

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• AAP - Child Health Month   [rate it] [review it]
  Concise but fully footnoted factsheet on secondhand smoke and its effects on adults and children.

• AAP - Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A Danger to Children   [rate it] [review it]
  Short discussion from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

• Breast-feeding and Secondhand Exposure to Cigarettes   [rate it] [review it]
  Measures infants' exposure from maternal smoking.

• Childhood asthma   [rate it] [review it]
  "Half the cases of early childhood asthma are due to secondhand cigarette smoke".

• Children and Secondhand Smoke   [rate it] [review it]
  19-month old visits Grandpa's house; "as soon as we left, he began wheezing. That night he had a high fever and could barely breathe." Taken to the emergency room, he was diagnosed and admitted with pneumonia. What happened? At Grandpa's he was exposed to secondhand smoke. Unusual? Sadly, no. Each year, secondhand smoke causes up to 300,000 respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia in infants and young children.

• Children and Secondhand Smoke   [rate it] [review it]
  Online pamphlet from the Canadian Cancer Society.

• Children at Risk from ETS   [rate it] [review it]
  Young children and unborn infants are more vulnerable than adults to genetic damage from secondhand smoke, and exposures during early development increase the risk of cancer later in life, according to a study at Columbia University.

• Clinical Briefs - American Family Physician, July 1997   [rate it] [review it]
  Secondhand smoke is associated with increased illnesses in children, including lower respiratory disease, middle ear effusion, asthma and sudden infant death syndrome. One study found that the overall cancer risk was greater for individuals exposed to environmental tobacco smoke during both childhood and adulthood than for individuals with a history of exposure during only one of those periods.

• Custody Judge Bans Smoking Near Child   [rate it] [review it]
  A judge has barred smoking in the presence of an 8 year old girl, citing the scientific evidence of the effects of secondhand smoke.

• Dr. Spock: Secondhand Smoke and Children's Health   [rate it] [review it]
  Summary of effects of secondhand smoke on children.

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