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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 5 Environmental tobacco smoke |
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| | A study from Norway concluded that passive maternal smoking increased the risk for |
| | low birthweight (small-for-gestational-age) babies. |
| | American Journal of Public Health, January 1998, pp. 120-124 |
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| | In one study, children at age 11 whose mothers smoked averaged half an inch shorter |
| | and lagged their peers developmentally by an average of 3 months. |
| | British Medical Journal, November 21, 1981, p. 1363, and Acta Paediatrica |
| | Scandinavia 72:747, 1983 |
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| | Passive smoking in the US causes 53,000 deaths per year: 37,000 from heart |
| | disease, 4000 from lung cancer, and 12,000 from other cancers. |
| | Circulation, January 1991, p. 1 |
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| | Children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy in a study from Ottawa, Canada, |
| | did poorly compared with a control group in the areas of speech and language |
| | development, academic achievement, intelligence, motor skills, and behavioral |
| | problems. |
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| | Maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with an increase in rates of |
| | childhood problem behavior. |
| | Pediatrics, December 1993, p. 815 |
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| | Academically, children of nonsmokers scored 6% higher on academic tests than other |
| | children of similar backgrounds whose parents smoked. |
| | SCARC, July 1, 1991 |
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