| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 6 Asthma, allergy, and smoke exposure |
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| Babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy have lungs that are up to 10% |
| smaller and do not function as well than lungs of babies whose mothers did not |
| smoke. The damage is permanent, and these children are up to three times more |
| likely to develop diseases such as asthma. |
| ABC news, June 20, 1994 |
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| Passive smoking in children is associated with an increase in the degree of the |
| normal diurnal or circadian rhythm in diameter of the bronchi in the lungs, an early |
| indicator of airway obstruction. |
| NEJM, December 1, 1988, p. 1452 |
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