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Cigarette Use May Explain Asthma Epidemic in Children

Published in Health Risk Factor Week, June 5th, 2007

The rise in cigarette use by adults over the past century may explain the asthma epidemic in children according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).

The prevalence of asthma has increased at least 3-fold during the past several decades, but the cause for this remains unknown, said author Renee D. Goodwin, PhD, MPH, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. The increase is occurring most prominently in industrialized countries, but now developing countries are beginning to experience similar...

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