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Secondhand Smoke and Babies
Does Secondhand Smoke Cause Sleep Disturbances in Infants?
By Kelly Burgess
The point is that everyone knows it's tough to quit smoking. This is one reason parents continue to smoke even after they have children, says Matthew Barry, director of policy research for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Other reasons may include ignorance of the harmful effects secondhand smoke can have on children.
"As important as it is to urge parents not to smoke around their children, it's difficult to legislate it for those who continue to do so," says Barry. "Part of the problem is the reluctance of a lot of public elected officials to make laws that effect personal domain. There have been some actions in a couple of states that make it against the law to smoke in vehicles with a child and some court decisions in recent years in shared-custody cases where one parent is a smoker, but it's a delicate issue when you start trying to legislate what people do in the privacy of their own home."
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