{"id":1661,"date":"2009-07-17T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2009-07-17T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:36:40","slug":"smoking-near-kids-triples-cancer-risk-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/smoking-near-kids-triples-cancer-risk-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Near Kids Triples Cancer Risk, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents who smoke around their young children more than triple their kids&#8217; risk of getting cancer later in life, a new study concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes reported Jan. 28 that the study found that children exposed to their parents secondhand smoke on a daily basis also have an elevated risk of developing other respiratory problems compared to kids growing up in a smoke-free home. The study looked at 123,000 people in 10 European nations, tracking them for an average of seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer risk was highest among former smokers, as opposed to those who never smoked. Researchers suggested that cumulative exposure to cigarette smoke &#8211; regardless of the source &#8211; raised the risk of getting cancer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: Jan. 28 2004 issue of the British Medical Journal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents who smoke around their young children more than triple their kids&#8217; risk of getting cancer later in life, a new study concludes. Forbes reported Jan. 28 that the study found that children exposed to their parents secondhand smoke on a daily basis also have an elevated risk of developing other respiratory problems compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nicotine","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}