Third-hand smoke and children

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...

The impact of second-hand tobacco smoke exposure on pregnancy outcomes, infant health, and the threat of third-hand smoke exposure to our environment and to our children.

Smoking during pregnancy is associated with various adverse effects on pregnancy and fetal development, carries a lot of serious complications such as spontaneous abortion, placental abruption, and reduced birth weight of the newborn. Children of smoking mothers have an increased risk of premature birth, low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome and respiratory diseases during infancy. Smo...

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...

Exposure of children to second-hand smoke in cars

Objective: To investigate exposure of children to second hand smoke (SHS) in cars under real life smoking and realistic driving conditions. Methods: PM2.5 concentrations (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter below 2.5μm) were monitored as a marker for SHS in 21 car journeys using the TSI portable photometer SidePakTM. Five participants (includ ing one non-smoker) volunteered to drive...

Second - hand Smoke and Cancer