Chapter 6 Asthma, allergy, and smoke exposure

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Babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy have lungs that are up to 10%

smaller and do not function as well than lungs of babies whose mothers did not

smoke. The damage is permanent, and these children are up to three times more

likely to develop diseases such as asthma.

ABC news, June 20, 1994

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Passive smoking in children is associated with an increase in the degree of the

normal diurnal or circadian rhythm in diameter of the bronchi in the lungs, an early

indicator of airway obstruction.

NEJM, December 1, 1988, p. 1452

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