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Article

11 Sep 2001

Author:
PRNewswire, American College of Chest Physicians

Study Reveals Link Between Asthma and Childhood Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Childhood exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is associated with an increased prevalence of asthma among adult non-smokers. According to a Swedish study published in the September issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), ETS also increases the chance that exposed children will smoke in adulthood.