According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, approximately five-and-a-half million kids live in households in which someone smokes. Previous studies have shown that secondhand smoke exposure in kids can cause respiratory diseases, sids, and higher rates of asthma. Now two new studies in this week's edition of pediatrics, find secondhand smoke appears to have a big affect on the way youngsters behave. Investigators from Harvard and the tobacco free research...
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London: Passive smoking kills over 600,000 people, including more than 165,000 children under five, every year in the world, according to a new study. The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, is the first to estimate worldwide impact of passive smoking. It found more than half of the deaths are from heart disease, followed by deaths from cancer, lung infections, asthma and other ailments. Researchers who analysed data...04:54 PM, Nov 26, 2010
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