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According to the AmericanEnvironmental Protection Agency, parents
are responsible for 90 percent of children’s exposure to environmental
(second-hand) tobacco smoke. Children with mothers who smoke are at even
higher-risk for developing health disorders.
Smoking is associated with the development of bladder cancer
in adults.
Now, a presentation at the American Urological Association
Annual Meeting has shown that second-hand cigarette smoke is associated with
moderate to severe irritative bladder symptoms in children.
The study included children aged 4 through 17 who sought
care of a pediatric urologist for irritative bladder storage symptoms including
urinary urgency, increased urinary frequency and incontinence. 28 percent of
children in the study were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke. More than
half of the children in the study had moderate to severe symptoms, 50 percent
of which were exposed to cigarette smoke within a car and 23 percent of which
had mothers who smoked.
The presentation noted that symptom severity increased with
greater exposure to second-hand smoke; in children aged 4 through 10, the
increase in severe urinary symptoms was significant.
“Cigarette smoke is an environmental toxin and dangerous to
children’s health – particularly hazardous to very young and pre-pubescent
children,” said Joseph G. Barone, associate professor of surgery at
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and surgeon-in-chief of Bristol-Myers
Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
“Parents should make a concerted effort to reduce their
child’s exposure to smoke in confined places, especially in the home and in
cars. Quitting smoking is the healthiest option for children.”
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The above story is based on the June 7, 2012 news release by
Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School
The research was presented by Kelly Johnson at the American
Urological Association Annual Meeting on May 20, 2012: 597. The Pediatric Bladder Is Not Immune to the
Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Johnson K, Zhao P, Schneider D, Barone
J
Click HERE for the abstract.
How do you prove anything with no toxicology to back up your claims! Please provide the pathway that proves this!
ReplyDeleteOf course they wont,its a junk science observational study just like every single second hand smoke study out there! Science isnt making claims,science is about proving claims thru the biological process of the microscope and there are no studies that use this in tobacco control! Its all PROPAGANDA!