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Article: Secondhand smoke damages babies' lungs.(Respiratory Ailments)(Brief article)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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In unprecedented biochemical and anatomical detail, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have described how cigarette smoke damages the lungs of unborn and newborn children.
The findings illustrate with increased urgency the dangers that smokers' families and friends face, and should give pediatricians helpful new insight into the precise hidden physical changes occurring in their young patients' lungs, maintains Kent Pinkerton, a professor for the Center for Health and the Environment.
"Smoke exposure causes significant damage and lasting consequences in newborns," he insists. "This research has a message for every parent: Do not smoke or ...