Study reveals Passive smoking makes children more...

A study has revealed that children who live with parents who smoke were almost 50% more likely to be admitted to hospital with an infectious disease before they were eight years old.

A third of all children who where within 10 feet of cigarette smoke in the developing years ended up in hospital.

The Tobacco Control site has issued a study that tracked over 7,000 children born in Hong Kong in the 2nd quarter of 1997

The children were monitored for 8 years and researchers covered the results

The research study revealed that children who had a w birth rate with at a significantly greater risk.

Children exposed to tobacco smoke were 75% more likely to suffer from the effects of diseases including meningococcal and respiratory illnesses.

The study’s compilers from the University of Hong Kong have said that passive smoking can weaken the immune system and also cause respiratory problems.

The report goes on to say “An excess risk of severe morbidity from both respiratory and other infections for all infants exposed to second hand smoke suggests that such exposure, as well as acting via direct contact with the respiratory tract, may also affect the immune system.”
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