Smoke harms children.An Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and report has concluded that secondhand tobacco smoke poses severe health risks to children, causing thousands of respiratory illnesses annually. The EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. report,. presented to the agency's science advisory panel June 18, 1992, also raised concerns that tobacco smoke may be linked to sudden infant death syndrome sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or crib death, sudden, unexpected, and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant under one year of age (usually between two weeks and eight months old). , or SIDS SIDS sudden infant death syndrome. SIDS abbr. sudden infant death syndrome SIDS, n See syndrome, sudden infant death. . The cause of SIDS is not known, but the EPA study suggests there may be a relationship with infants' exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke either before or after birth. It offered no conclusive proof. The report, which is based on an examination of dozens of scientific studies and aims to assess the health risks from tobacco smoke to nonsmokers, has been under review at the EPA for more than a year. Agency spokesmen said the new study concludes that secondhand tobacco smoke is believed to account for more than 200,000 serious respiratory ailments in children annually, including bronchitis and pneumonia. The report also suggests a direct link between secondhand tobacco smoke and asthma, an affliction that affects tens of thousands of children. It says children are twice as likely to develop asthma if they live in homes where at least 10 cigarettes are smoked daily. John Banzhaf, executive director of the anti-smoking group Action on Smoking and Health, called such findings a major step toward getting legislation passed on the federal and state levels to ban smoking in public places and one that may be used in custody In Custody (1984) is a novel set in India by Indian American writer Anita Desai. It was Shortlisted, Booker Prize for Fiction in 1984. Plot summary Deven earns a living by teaching Hindi literature to disinterested college students. cases. --From the Ann Arbor News The Ann Arbor News is a newspaper serving Washtenaw and Livingston counties. Published in Ann Arbor, Michigan, under various names since 1835, The News is part of Booth Newspapers, owned by Advance Publications Inc. , 6/18/92 |
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