| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 5 Environmental tobacco smoke |
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| "For the vanities committed in this filthy custome, is it not both great vanity and |
| uncleanness, that at the table, a place of cleanliness, men should not be ashamed, to |
| sit puffing of the smoke of tobacco, making the filthy smoke and stink thereof, to |
| exhale athwart the dishes, and infect the air, when very often men that abhor it are at |
| their repast?" |
| A Counterblaste to Tobacco, King James I, 1604 |
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| Passive smoking, or second-hand smoke, kills about the same number of Americans |
| each year as died in the Vietnam War. One American dies from second-hand smoke |
| for every eight who die from active smoking. |
| Circulation, January 1991, p. 1 |
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| The Royal College of Physicians estimates that each year in Britain, 17,000 children |
| under age 5 were admitted to the hospital because of illness caused by exposure to |
| parents' smoke. |
| Thorax 49:733, 1994 |
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| Children exposed to household smoke have four times the risk of being hospitalized |
| for a bacterial or viral infection than babies and children from smoke-free households. |
| American Journal of Public Health, February 1989, p. 209 |
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| In children ages 3 to 5 years, passive smoke exposure increases the risk of serious |
| infectious illnesses requiring hospitalization almost four-fold. |
| American Journal of Epidemiology 133:154, 1991 |
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