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The Smoke-Free Ontario Act: Extend Protection to Children in Vehicles
The Issue Infants and children are more severely affected by exposure to second hand smoke than adults because they are smaller and have higher respiration rates. New evidence implicates second hand smoke in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), childhood cancer, leukemia, brain cancer, asthma and ... read more
Source: The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU) - Updates August 2006
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