The UK smoke-free legislation was not drafted or intended directly to protect children.
The results demonstrate modest impacts of maternal passive smoking on birth weight, and possibly on fetal and perinatal mortality, and the risk of congenital abnormalities. They also demonstrate important effects of family and household smoking on the risk of sudden infant death, lower respiratory infection, middle ear disease, wheeze, asthma, and meningitis in the child.
As is consistent with the data on exposure levels, maternal smoking typically has the strongest effects. Whilst the magnitude of the results of our meta-analyses may have been biased by confounding and other factors, our subgroup analyses of adjusted studies suggest that these influences have not appreciably biased the effect estimates. We are aware that passive smoking has been implicated in a wide range of health, developmental and behavioural effects in children, including some rare cancers such as hepatoblastoma and leukaemia, and that the list of outcomes studied in this report is far from comprehensive. We have also not included harm arising from domestic fires.
Passive smoking results in over 165,000 new episodes of disease, 300,000 primary care contacts, 9,500 hospital admissions, at least 200 cases of bacterial meningitis, and about 40 sudden infant deaths each year. Most of this additional burden of disease falls on the more disadvantaged children in our society. All of it is avoidable.
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