Second-hand smoke is a serious health hazard that can have devastating effects on children's lungs and overall health. It contains over 7,000 chemicals, many of which are known to cause cancer ...

Methods We used nationally representative household samples (n=369 654) collected through the Demographic Health Surveys between 2010 and 2014 to calculate daily exposure to secondhand smoke (ESHS) ...

Exposure to secondhand smoke could increase the risk of developing oral cancer by 51 percent for individuals, according to a new meta-analysis of prior cancer studies, published in the journal Tobacco ...

This ordinance, adopted by the City Council on Dec. 18, aims to safeguard residents people from the health risks of ...

These deaths do not affect smokers only. In the European Union, 19,000 non-smokers die each year due to second-hand smoke, which impacts mainly children and women. The latest EU health ministers ...

Follow these eight strategies to say goodby to smoking. Every year, we write our lists of things we want to accomplish to ...

Each report follows an extensive hearing and study process by the Commission and its staff, including testimony from a variety of affected groups, a review of existing research, and in some cases ...

11, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For children genetically predisposed to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), exposure ... Specifically, kids whose genes already put them at higher risk of developing MS later ...

Several months ago, we discussed the impact of child health poverty on the overall well-being of children, with a specific focus on the dire situations they face in developing countries.

For children genetically predisposed to develop ... and who were also exposed to secondhand smoke at home, tended to have lower brain volumes and lower "gray matter" volume in their brains ...