Passive Smoking Seriously Harms Newborns
Source: Life Style Extra
Date: 19th June 2007
Children of smokers have more than five-and-a-half times higher levels of a nicotine poison in their urine, new research shows.
Parents could be doing more harm than they realise by using cigarettes and it has been suggested as a possible cause of cot deaths.
The study found on average babies who have parents who smoke have 5.58 times as much cotinine - a metabolic by-product of nicotine which is the addictive element of tobacco smoke.
Individually having a mother who smoked was twice as bad for children than those whose only smoking parent was their father, according to the findings published online by Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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