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Intro: SMOKING bans in pubs and restaurants may endanger children by causing smokers to indulge in their habit more frequently at home, a visiting academic says.
Research by economist Francesca Cornaglia of Queen Mary University, London, has found higher levels of passive smoking among children in the US where such bans exist.
Smoking bans at pubs, clubs and restaurants have been introduced in most Australian states in the past few years.
Dr Cornaglia today said the data suggested that people who were no longer allowed to smoke in such public places were simply changing the location of where they smoked.
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