Cigarette smoking and secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke are the leading cause of preventable mortality in the United States. Many infants and children continue to be exposed to tobacco through all developmental stages: prenatal, perinatal, early childhood and adolescence. In neonates and infants, increased mortality has been linked to parental smoking; in infants and children, exposure to secondhand smoke can increase morbidity from respiratory disease; in adolescents, active tobacco use has been shown to damage health and normal metabolism at a critical stage of growth and development.
New Online Tobacco Control Training from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Release of new AAP Tobacco Policy Statement
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12th Annual Meeting of the SRNT Europe
University of Bath
September 6-9, 2010
2010 AAP National Conference & Exhibition
San Francisco, CA
October 2-5, 2010
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