Chapter 5 Environmental tobacco smoke

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"For the vanities committed in this filthy custome, is it not both great vanity and

uncleanness, that at the table, a place of cleanliness, men should not be ashamed, to

sit puffing of the smoke of tobacco, making the filthy smoke and stink thereof, to

exhale athwart the dishes, and infect the air, when very often men that abhor it are at

their repast?"

A Counterblaste to Tobacco, King James I, 1604

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Passive smoking, or second-hand smoke, kills about the same number of Americans

each year as died in the Vietnam War. One American dies from second-hand smoke

for every eight who die from active smoking.

Circulation, January 1991, p. 1

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The Royal College of Physicians estimates that each year in Britain, 17,000 children

under age 5 were admitted to the hospital because of illness caused by exposure to

parents' smoke.

Thorax 49:733, 1994

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Children exposed to household smoke have four times the risk of being hospitalized

for a bacterial or viral infection than babies and children from smoke-free households.

American Journal of Public Health, February 1989, p. 209

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In children ages 3 to 5 years, passive smoke exposure increases the risk of serious

infectious illnesses requiring hospitalization almost four-fold.

American Journal of Epidemiology 133:154, 1991

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