Passive Smoking and Children’s Health
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Passive smoking and children's health.
Tabagism is one of the greatest public health problems at the present time because this is the most important cause of preventabel deaths worldwide. Due to its impact on the health and welfare of all, the act of smoking causes problems for society, including that children, without being able to enjoy the freedom of choice, eventually become compulsory passive smokers since its conception. This ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1949-4998,1949-5005
DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612172