Children lose 8.45 million days of healthy life each year globally due to second hand smoke, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Children from low socio-economic regions face the biggest impact of breathing second hand smoke, also known as passive smoking.

The study was presented by Dr Siyu Dai, Assistant Professor in the School of Clinical Medicine at Hangzhou Normal University and an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Paediatrics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

She told the Congress: “Second-hand smoke is a major contributor to preventable illness and death in children and there is no safe exposure level. It is linked to chest infections , cardiovascular disease , and neurodevelopmental pr

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