The report from the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians says that children are exposed to passive smoking wherever people smoke and argues that media campaigns are needed to explain why it is important to prevent it.
It cites statistics that passive smoking is implicated in more than 20,000 cases of lower respiratory tract infections, 120,000 cases of middle ear disease, at least 22,000 new cases of wheeze and asthma, 200 cases of bacterial meningitis and 40 sudden infant deaths in UK children each year.
The report, Passive smoking and children, says that the most important determinates of passive smoke exposure for children are whether parents or carers smoke, and whether smoking is allowed in the home.
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