Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and adult asthma

Small nonspecialized farming as a protective factor against immediate‐type occupational respiratory allergy?

“…The protective role of active smoking found in the univariate analysis is contrary to other reports (35) and may be surprising. However, assuming that people suffering from respiratory symptoms may have quitted smoking and that the anamnesis from patients who claim for compensation may not always be fully reliable we decided to perform an analysis for the factor ‘smoking at present or in the past’.…”

Environment and asthma in adults

“…The role of environmental and behavioral factors might differ across these phenotypes. In childhood, several environmental factors have been reported to be associated with asthma, including a protective effect of farming environment early in life or prenatally [13][14][15], a deleterious effect of exposure to second hand smoke, as well as a deleterious effect of exposure to air pollution [13,[15][16][17][18][19]. The conclusions of a recent review on the induction of asthma and the environment [17] provide scientific support for public health efforts to limit in utero and postnatal exposure to tobacco smoke.…”

Mouse models to unravel the role of inhaled pollutants on allergic sensitization and airway inflammation

“…However, associations between the risk of developing asthma and inhalable pollutant exposure provide strong indications that there might be a causal relationship. Many data support the hypothesis that ETS exposure (passive smoking) contributes to the development of both childhood asthma and adult onset asthma [20]. In utero exposure to maternal smoking or any smoking at home significantly increases the risk for developing childhood asthma [21,22].…”