TY  - JOUR
T1  - Toward a population free of tobacco smoke exposure: Testing of children in the pediatric setting
AU  - Winickoff JP, Joseph A
Y1  - 2012/09/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.297
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 871
EP  - 872
VL  - 166
IS  - 9
N2  - 
The simple but elegant study by Dempsey et al2 heralds a paradigm shift in addressing family tobacco use and TSE for children. Despite low reported TSE rates, Dempsey and colleagues found that more than half of children aged 0 to 18 years in an urban public pediatric hospital clinic had evidence of TSE as documented by a reliable biomarker of tobacco exposure in young children, cotinine level.2 The rates of TSE were significantly higher in African American children than white children. This was the first systematic study to include infants and children aged 0 to 3 years.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.297
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.297
ER  -