2014-03-29

A cost-effective way to protect the health of children?

Ban smoking.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/smoking-bans-tied-to-reduced-childhood-asthma-1.2590734
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60082-9/fulltext

"Pooled estimates suggest that rates of both preterm birth and pediatric hospital admissions for asthma were reduced by 10 per cent," after smoke-free legislation was introduced, Aziz Sheikh, the study’s senior author and a physician-researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and his Dutch and Belgian co-authors concluded.

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