Secondhand smoke exposure at home among one billion children in 21 countries: findings from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)

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• Alternative Title:
  Tob Control
• Personal Author:
  Mbulo, Lazarous ; Palipudi, Krishna Mohan ; Andes, Linda ; Morton, Jeremy ; Bashir, Rizwan ; Fouad, Heba ; Ramanandraibe, Nivo ; Caixeta, Roberta ; Khoury, Rula Dias ; Wijnhoven, Trudy ; Kashiwabara, Mina ; Sinha, Dhirendra N. ; d’Espaignet, Edouard Tursan
• Description:
  Objective
  
  Children are vulnerable to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure because of limited control over their indoor environment. Homes remain the major place where children may be exposed to SHS. Our study examines the magnitude, patterns and determinants of SHS exposure in the home among children in 21 low- and middle-income countries.
  
  Methods
  
  Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) data, a household survey of adults 15 years of age or older. Data collected during 2009–2013 were analyzed to estimate the proportion of children exposed to SHS in the home. GATS estimates and 2012 United Nations population projections for 2015 were also used to estimate the number of children exposed to SHS in the home.
  
  Results
  
  The proportion of children younger than 15 years of age exposed to SHS in the home ranged from 4.5% (Panama) to 79.0% (Indonesia). Of the approximately one billion children younger than 15 years of age living in the 21 countries under study, an estimated 507.74 million were exposed to SHS in the home. China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines accounted for almost 84.6% of the children exposed to SHS. The prevalence of SHS exposure was higher in countries with higher adult smoking rates and was also higher rural areas than in urban areas in most countries.
  
  Conclusions
  
  A large number of children were exposed to SHS in the home. Encouraging voluntary smoke-free rules in homes and cessation in adults have the potential to reduce SHS exposure among children and prevent SHS-related diseases and deaths.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Air Pollution, Indoor Child Child, Preschool Developed Countries Developing Countries Environmental Exposure Global Health Health Surveys Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Prevalence Smoking Tobacco Smoke Pollution

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• Source:
  Tob Control. 25(E2):e95-e100
• Pubmed ID:
  26869598
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5488799
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  001/WHO_/World Health OrganizationInternational/ ; CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  25
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2eb17ef7aa6549a33eecd125f43df2afaf5f91cc7933a1ff0682a7b4c81f0302
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/46653/cdc_46653_DS1.pdf
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