Passive Smoking a Potential Risk for Future Generations: Study

Passive Smoking a Potential Risk for Future Generations: Study
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Steve Milne
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Children are at an increased risk of developing asthma if their fathers were exposed to second-hand smoke as children, a study by researchers from Australia’s University of Melbourne has found.

Published on Thursday in the European Respiratory Journal, the study also demonstrated that a child’s asthma risk increases further if their father became a smoker after being exposed to passive smoke as a child.

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