Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Newborns and Infants in a Rural Community / 日本農村医学会雑誌
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
; : 93-98, 1995.
Article
in Japanese
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ABSTRACT
Many researchers report that cigarette smoking by parents adversely affects their children. We carried out a survey about cigarette puffing by distributing questionnaires to mothers of sucklings and little children. The survey found that mothers and family members were not well aware of the health consequences of passive smoking. It was also found that children frequently exposed to smoking are at high risk of contracting infections of the respiratory tract. The average weight at birth was less in babies borned by smoking mothers than by those who do not smoke. Furthermore, it was revealed that a larger number of smoking mothers had given birth to low birth weight infants than nonsmoking mothers had.<BR>These findings suggested that passive cigarette smoking is linked to low birth weight and respiratory tract infection. We think it is incumbent on us, health-care professionals, to bring home to mothers and the rest of the family members how serious the consequences of passive smoking are.
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Health context:
Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas
Health problem:
Goal 3 Human resources for health
Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Language:
Japanese
Journal:
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
Year:
1995
Document type:
Article