Secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmoking youth: United States, 2013-2016

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• Personal Author:
  Brody, Debra J. ; Tsai, James ; Lu, Zhaohui
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure comes from the inhalation of smoke from burning cigarettes, cigars, and pipes (1). SHS can cause sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory and ear infections, and asthma attacks in youth (1,2). Decreases in tobacco smoking, awareness of SHS health risks, and smoke-free policies may have contributed to a reduction in SHS exposure since the late 1980s (3,4). However, in recent years, the percentage of youth with SHS exposure has remained steady (5). This report describes the prevalence of SHS exposure among nonsmoking youth in 2013-2016, as defined by serum cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine.
  
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  • The percentage of SHS-exposed youth increased with decreasing family income.
  
  Key findings
  
  Suggested citation: Brody DJ, Lu Z, Tsai J. Secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmoking youth: United States, 2013-2016. NCHS Data Brief, no 348. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2019.
  
  • A higher percentage of non-Hispanic black (61.8%) youth was exposed to SHS compared with non-Hispanic white (34.3%), non-Hispanic Asian (18.3%), and Hispanic (24.9%) youth.
  
  • The percentage of SHS exposure was higher for youth aged 3-11 than for youth aged 12-17, and similar for boys and girls.
  
  • The percentage of SHS-exposed youth living with two or more tobacco smokers was more than three times as high as youth not living with a smoker.
  
  • In 2013-2016, more than one-third (35.4%) of U.S. nonsmoking youth aged 3-17 years were exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) from tobacco, as measured by cotinine in the blood.
  
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  Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Environmental Exposure Tobacco Products Tobacco Smoke Pollution
• Keywords:
  Fair or poor health, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey
• Source:
  National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Text ; Visual Abstract
• Genre:
  Statistics ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Issue:
  348
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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