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EDITORIAL
Parental smoking
Effects of parental smoking on the respiratory health of adults
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Correspondence to:
M N Upton
Woodlands Family Medical Centre, 106 Yarm Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland TS18 1YE, UK; marknupton@aol.com
Further evidence that parental smoking may have long term effects into adulthood on the respiratory health of offspring
Keywords: parental smoking; offspring
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A paper on passive smoking by Cook and Strachan1 published in a Thorax review series in 1999 reported odds ratios (OR) for childhood lower respiratory tract illnesses, respiratory symptoms, and middle ear disease of 1.2–1.6 for either parent smoking, the risks usually being higher in pre-school children than in children of school age. The review concluded that parental smoking was causally associated with impaired lung function in children, but found inconsistent evidence linking parental smoking to allergic sensitisation and suggested that evidence linking maternal smoking to bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) may have arisen from publication bias.1
There is little information from follow up studies about the effect on adult health of exposure to parental smoking,2,3 which is understandable given the logistical difficulties of following individuals for many decades from birth. In this issue of Thorax Svanes and colleagues take a short cut and report cross-sectional results from the European
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