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• Caregivers often expose asthmatic kids to smoke 

Secondhand exposure to cigarette smoke is an asthma trigger in children and a new study shows that smoking by the primary caregiver and daycare provider are important sources of smoke exposure in children with asthma.

In the study, children with asthma who were exposed to secondhand smoke "had as much smoke exposure as if their mother smoked," Dr. Harold J. Farber told Reuters Health.

Children with a double hit of smoke exposure - from both their daycare provider and primary caregiver - had the highest levels of nicotine metabolites in their urine, said Farber, of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.

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