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Intro: Children who live in households with smokers may not get enough to eat, researchers reported here.
Action Points
* Explain to interested patients that rates of food insecurity nearly doubled for children living in homes with smokers, and the highest rates of food insecurity were in children living in low-income households with smokers.
Rates of food insecurity -- the inability to access enough food every day -- were nearly doubled for children living in homes with smokers (17% versus 9%, PArchives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Rates of severe food insecurity more than tripled for these children (3% versus 0.9%, P=0.04), the researchers said.
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