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Non-smoking adults have a higher risk of dying from serious lung disease if they grew up with parents who smoked, according to US research.
The researchers said childhood passive smoking was "likely to add seven deaths to every 100,000 non-smoking adults dying annually".
The study of 70,900 non-smoking men and women was led by the American Cancer Society.
Experts said the best way to protect children was to quit smoking.
If participants lived with a smoker during adulthood, there were other health implications, the study found.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45212448
7/100,000 seems an awfully small number, I don't see how they can possibly ascribe it to one particular cause, especially something like passive smoking. Not much I can do about my Dad's 50-a-day habit when I was a child 🙄
The researchers said childhood passive smoking was "likely to add seven deaths to every 100,000 non-smoking adults dying annually".
The study of 70,900 non-smoking men and women was led by the American Cancer Society.
Experts said the best way to protect children was to quit smoking.
If participants lived with a smoker during adulthood, there were other health implications, the study found.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45212448
7/100,000 seems an awfully small number, I don't see how they can possibly ascribe it to one particular cause, especially something like passive smoking. Not much I can do about my Dad's 50-a-day habit when I was a child 🙄