The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7426 p567
11 November 2006

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Regular cigarette smoking increases the risk for new onset asthma among adolescents, a prospective study of 2,609 children reveals. Children who reported smoking 300 cigarettes or more in the previous year were almost four times more likely to develop asthma than non-smokers. The increased risk was greater among children without allergies and among children exposed to maternal smoking in utero (American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2006;174:1094).