Purposefully and repeatedly exposing children to secondhand smoke — a known human carcinogen — is child abuse, according to an opinion piece written by Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, a professor in the ...

It's no secret that smoking and secondhand smoke are not good for your health. But a new study shows just how detrimental secondhand smoke is for children. "In past studies, we found up to nearly ...

"My parents smoke in the house and it makes me cough," said the young pediatric patient sitting on the stretcher. She was a patient I had met while working in the Respiratory Care Department of the ...

Children lose 8.45 million days of healthy life each year globally due to second hand smoke, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...

Children admitted to a hospital for asthma are more likely to be readmitted in one year if they are exposed to secondhand smoke, according to a Medical News Today report. Researchers at Cincinnati ...

April 4 -- FRIDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Poor children are exposed to more secondhand smoke than their wealthier counterparts, a new study has found. A big reason for this is that "poor kids are ...