Surf these sites: AAP - Child Health Month -- Concise but fully footnoted factsheet on secondhand smoke and its effects on adults and children. Childhood asthma -- "Half the cases of early childhood asthma are due to secondhand cigarette smoke". Children and Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- Canadian Institute of Child Health factsheet. Children and secondhand smoke -- 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 at Risk from ETS -- 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 -- 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. Effects of ETS on Children -- Excerpted from EPA report, published by the National Conservation Guild, as part of their indoor air quality issues series. Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A Hazard to Children -- Policy statement and report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, April 1997. Goes well beyond the EPA report. Updated bibliography covers the research. Fetus May Be Harmed by Second-Hand Smoke -- Review of recent research. Growing up in Smoke is dangerous -- Children are Passive Smokers, and by the millions. HomeArts: HealthBeat -- Secondhand Smoke and Ear Infections in Kids -- Ear infections are the number one reason young children visit their doctors and take antibiotics. Ear infections are painful and can lead to hearing loss. A new study finds many of those infections could be avoided if parents who smoke would make one important change. NRDC Pro: Our Children At Risk - Chapter 6 -- Secondhand smoke is an environmental health risk. OncoLink FAQ: How Can I Protect My Children from Secondhand Smoke -- Brief summary of risks and vulnerabilities, and what can be done. Parents.com: Smoke, secondhand -- Factsheet. Emphasis is on effects of secondhand smoke on children. Passive smoking and children: analysis of hazards -- Summary of an international symposium on health damages to kids from tobacco smoke. Provided in English and German languages. Second Hand Smoke & Canadian Kids -- One in three Canadian kids are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke in their home. Analysis shows: what this means, what are the effects on thealth, and who''s at risk. Second Hand Smoke in Pregnancy -- Secondhand smoke can hurt unborn babies Secondhand Smoke -- Dr. Greene''s HouseCalls -- Practical answers to your pediatric questions from a caring, perceptive expert. Report on 1996 study: "the relative risk for breast cancer from passive smoke (primarily girls whose parent smoked or women whose spouse smoked) was 3.2! This makes passive smoking a more important risk factor than having a mother with breast cancer (2.1), or having an early first period (1.3), or having a late first pregnancy (1.4)." Secondhand Smoke and Children -- American Academy of Otolaryngology public service brochure. What secondhand smoke does to: the fetus and newborn; children''s lungs and respiratory tracts; the ears. Secondhand Smoke and Your Family -- American Lung Association on secondhand smoke. Effects of secondhand smoke on children, and information on how you can protect them. Secondhand Smoke: Effects on Adults and Children -- Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Promotion pamphlet. Secondhand Smoke: information for Parents -- Secondhand smoke is responsible for $4.6 billion in medical costs each year for kids 17 and under. Yet secondhand smoke enjoys special freedrom from regulation: "If the federal government regulated tobacco smoke the same way it does other air pollutants, acceptable levels would be so small that they could be produced by one smoker in a building of a million square feet". Secondhand smoke affects cholesterol level in children -- Washington Post story on research result. Exposing children to secondhand cigarette smoke can lower their blood levels of protective forms of cholesterol ("good" cholesterol). Smoking Mom; A Possible Cause of Asthma in Children -- What makes this study of 4,331 kids different from other studies is that while previous studies have found that exposure to smoke can worsen asthmatic symptoms, this study says passive smoke can cause asthma. Smoking. Maternal Smoking and Medical Expenditure for Childhood Respiratory Illness -- Short summary of study published in American Journal of Public Health. Maternal smoking was associated with increased health care expenditure of $120 per year for children under 5 years of age and $175 for children under two years. Top 5 environmental hazards to Children: #4 is secondhand smoke -- Thoroughly documented guide to the evidence underlying the conclusion that secondhand smoke is one of the top 5 envioronmental pollutants threatening children, and what you can do about it. WHO: Secondhand Smoke and Child Health -- World Health Organization 1999 report. "Almost half of the world''s children are involuntarily exposed to tobacco smoke."
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