Adverse health effects of prenatal and postnatal tobacco smoke exposure on children
January 2003
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Parents who choose to smoke are possibly not aware of, or deny, the negative effects of passive smoking on their offspring. This review summarises a wide range of effects of passive smoking on mortality and morbidity in children. It offers paediatricians, obstetricians, specialists in preventive child health care, general practitioners, and midwives an approach to promote smoking cessation in smoking parents before, during, and after pregnancy.
Keywords
- Child
- Female
- Humans
- Child, Preschool
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant
- Pregnancy
- Developmental Disabilities/etiology
- Fetal Diseases/*etiology
- Hypersensitivity/etiology
- Child Behavior Disorders/etiology
- Infant, Low Birth Weight
- Infection/etiology
- Lung Diseases/etiology
- Neoplasms/etiology
- Obstetric Labor Complications/etiology
- Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases/etiology
- Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
- Respiration Disorders/etiology
- Sudden Infant Death/etiology
- Tobacco Smoke Pollution/*adverse effects
Automatically Extracted Terms
- smoking
- children
- effect
- exposure
- pregnancy
- smoke
- cigarette smoking
- birth
- birth weight
- health
- cigarette
- childhood
- function
- factor
- disease
- weight
- study
- risk factor
- lung function
- health effects
