Children whose parents breathed cigarette smoke more likely to get asthma – study
The Guardian says Children are much more likely to develop asthma if their father was exposed to tobacco smoke when he was growing up, a new study has found.
And they are at even greater risk of suffering from the common lung condition if their father was a smoker himself, according to the international team of researchers.
The findings, published in the European Respiratory Journal, provide further evidence for the possible existence of a “transgenerational effect” in which smoking can damage the health of people born two generations later.
“We found that the risk of non-allergic asthma in children increases by 59% if their fathers were exposed to secondhand smoke in childhood, compared to children whose fathers were not exposed.
