Jump to full article: Health Behavior News Service, 2008-02-28
Author: Kurt Ullman, Contributing Writer
Intro: Although secondhand smoke has been linked to death and illness, a new study suggests that parents around the world do very little to protect their children from “passive smoking” exposure.
Heather Wipfli, Ph.D., project director at the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and colleagues conducted home surveys in 31 countries.
Researchers examined the smoking histories of the adults in the homes, exposures to secondhand smoke inside the house and in the community, and attitudes toward smoking. They used air-sampling technology to gauge nicotine levels in homes and hair samples to measure individual exposure levels of non-smoking women and children.
The study appears in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
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