Predictors of Childhood Exposure to Parental Secondhand Smoke in the House and Family Car
2009
Vassiliki Mantziou | Constantine I. Vardavas | Eleni Kletsiou | Kostas N. Priftis
Childhood exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is a serious threat to public health and can be influenced by parental lifestyle habits and beliefs. Taking the above into account we aimed at locating predictors of parental induced exposure to SHS in the house and family car among 614 children who visited the emergency department of two large pediatric hospitals in Athens, Greece. The multivariate analysis revealed that the factors found to mediate household exposure to paternal SHS were the number of cigarettes smoked per day (O.R 1.13, p
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