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Article: Study Indicates Secondhand Smoke Exposure Harms Children's Intellectual Development Says Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 4, 2005
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement
of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Director of Research Daniel E.
McGoldrick:
An important new study published in the January 2005 issue of the
peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives demonstrates
a strong negative relationship between children's exposure to
secondhand smoke and their performance on tests measuring reading,
math and reasoning skills. The negative impact of secondhand smoke
on children's cognitive ability was evident even at extremely low
levels of exposure and held up when other possible explanations
(e.g., poverty, parent education, etc.) were controlled. These
disturbing findings add to ...