Developing trial intervention model "children say no to secondhand smoke"

Abstract

Secondhand smoke (SHS) has a detrimental effect on community health, especially children's health. Symptoms and diseases caused by children's exposure to SHS include middle ear disease, adverse respiratory symptoms, increased respiratory infections, worsening of asthma, decreased lung function and sudden infant death syndrome (US DHHS, 2006, US DHHS, 2007).