Healthy Baby Second-Hand Smoke Study: project brief

Healthy baby second-hand smoke study: project brief.

Although a number of studies have assessed diVerences in personal and interpersonal factors between smokers and non-smokers (for example, age, smoking during previous pregnancies, partner smoking status), there has been little attention to the social context in which women make decisions about prenatal health behaviours. For pregnant women who are poor, undereducated, and facing housing or econ...

Second - hand Smoke and Cancer

Protecting children from second-hand smoke.

Since the 1970s, we have known that second-hand smoke (SHS) makes children sick, but we have only recently begun to quantify tobacco-related ill health, and to monitor the effects of public health interventions. In this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, BEEN et al. [1] quantify, for the first time, the effects of smoke-free legislation on hospitalisations for paediatric respiratory inf...

Second-hand tobacco smoke and children.

Cigarette smoke contains harmful chemicals with hazardous adverse effects on almost every organ in the body of smokers as well as of nonsmokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). There has been increasing interest in the effects of passive smoking on the health of children. In order to detect the magnitude of passive smoking in children, parental questionnaires, measuring nicotine an...

exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy and preterm delivery

background prematurity is an issue related to increasing the neonatal morbidity and mortality and smoking pregnant women cause the risk of low birth weight and prematurity increase, compared to non-smoking ones. results of all 205 women, 43 (20.97%) women exposed to shs during pregnancy and 162 (79.02%) women did not. in shs exposure group, 11 infant (25.6%) and in non- shs exposure group, 17 i...