Protecting children from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
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Protecting children: reducing their environmental tobacco smoke exposure.
The present review examines the current status of efforts to reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS) among infants and young children. Estimates of the number of children exposed vary, but it is probably over 20 million or about 35% of all U.S. children. Healthy People 2010 sets as an objective the reduction, to 10%, of the proportion of children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Control
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0964-4563
DOI: 10.1136/tc.7.1.1