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Respiratory health professionals call on MPs to vote to ban smoking in cars with children

BMJ 2014; 348 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g1395 (Published 07 February 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g1395
  1. Nicholas S Hopkinson, chair1,
  2. Azeem Majeed, professor of primary care2,
  3. John Britton, professor of epidemiology3,
  4. Andy Bush, professor of paediatric respiratory medicine4,
  5. Jon Ayres, professor of environmental and respiratory medicine5,
  6. Martin McKee, professor of European public health6,
  7. Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary health care7
  8. On behalf of 584 others
  1. 1British Thoracic Society Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Specialist Advisory Group, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London SW3 6NP, UK
  2. 2Imperial College London, London, UK
  3. 3University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  4. 4National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK
  5. 5University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  6. 6London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  7. 7Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
  1. n.hopkinson{at}ic.ac.uk

Secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke is a major cause of ill health in children.1 2 Smoke inhalation damages the developing lung, and the Royal College of Physicians estimates that each year in the UK it is responsible for 300 000 primary care contacts, 9500 hospital admissions, at least 200 cases of bacterial meningitis, and 40 sudden infant deaths. …

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