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PARENTAL SMOKING KILLS
OVER 6000 CHILDREN EACH YEAR -
NEW YORK TIMES [LINK]
At least 6,200 children die each year in the United States because of
their parents' smoking, killed by such things as lung infections and
burns, a study says.
''More young children are killed by parental smoking than by all
unintentional injuries combined,'' the researchers said in the July
issue of The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
The researchers said 2,800 of the deaths were linked to low birth
weights that had been caused by pregnant women's smoking. About 2,000
of the deaths are attributed to sudden infant death syndrome caused by
secondhand tobacco smoke, and 1,100 are linked to respiratory
infections.
About 250 children die of burns from fires caused by cigarettes,
matches or lighters each year, and 14 die of asthma.
The researchers added that some 5.4 million children each year survived
ailments like ear infections and asthma that were triggered by their
parents' smoking and that these problems cost $4.6 billion annually to
treat. The study was done by researchers at the University of Wisconsin
Medical School in Madison.
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