Chapter 6 Asthma, allergy, and smoke exposure

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Asthma is present in 4.8% of young children whose mothers smoke, but in only 2.3%

of children of nonsmoking mothers.

Pediatrics, April 1990, p. 505

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The 1993 EPA report Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking concludes that

levels of smoke present in homes are high enough to trigger as many as one million

attacks of asthma in infants under 18 months of age, as well as 8,000 to 26,000 new

cases of asthma in children each year in the United States.

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The EPA report estimates that passive smoking induces additional attacks and

increases the severity of symptoms in about 20% of this country's 2 to 5 million

asthmatic children.

Journal of Respiratory Disease, August 1994, p. 723

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Passive smoking worsens asthma symptoms in 207,000 children a year in Great

Britain. It also causes 60,000 cases a year of bronchitis or pneumonia in babies, of

whom 3,000 need hospitalization.

Associated Press, October 18, 1997

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In a study from France, severe asthmatic patients who required mechanical ventilation

had an in-hospital mortality of 31% if they were smokers compared to 11% for

nonsmokers who needed mechanical ventilation. The overall hospital readmission

rate was also twice as high for smokers. 23% of this group of asthmatics were

smokers.

American Review of Respiratory Disease, July 1992, p. 76

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