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Fetal exposure to tobacco smoke is common
  1. SIMONA PICHINI,
  2. ROBERTA PACIFICI
  1. Clinical Biochemistry Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy and Pharmacology Department, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
  2. Pediatrics Unit, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
  3. Respiratory and Environmental Research Unit, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
  1. Dr García-Algar, Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona Passeig Marítim 25–29, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain (OGarciaA{at}imas.imim.es)
  1. CARME PUIG,
  2. ÓSCAR GARCÍA-ALGAR,
  3. ORIOL VALL
  1. Clinical Biochemistry Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy and Pharmacology Department, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
  2. Pediatrics Unit, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
  3. Respiratory and Environmental Research Unit, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
  1. Dr García-Algar, Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona Passeig Marítim 25–29, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain (OGarciaA{at}imas.imim.es)
  1. JORDI SUNYER
  1. Clinical Biochemistry Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy and Pharmacology Department, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
  2. Pediatrics Unit, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
  3. Respiratory and Environmental Research Unit, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
  1. Dr García-Algar, Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona Passeig Marítim 25–29, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain (OGarciaA{at}imas.imim.es)

https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.55.12.936

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    Editor,—In 1994, women matched men with regard to smoking rates in Spain. In 1996, rates of daily smoking at 17 years of age showed a clear transition from men (24%) to women (29%). These figures rose to 43% and 45% in men and women, respectively, at 24 years of age during 1998 in a Spanish Health Interview Survey.1 This high incidence of tobacco consumption in young women in Spain may have unfavourable effects on the health of new generations exposed to maternal smoking and environmental tobacco smoke since gestation.

    We assessed the recent in utero exposure to tobacco smoke …

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