{"id":4132,"date":"2015-06-05T01:01:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2015-06-08T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T06:19:38","slug":"anti-smoking-legislation-reduced-childrens-hospital-admissions-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/anti-smoking-legislation-reduced-childrens-hospital-admissions-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-smoking legislation reduced children\u2019s hospital admissions in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smoking legislation reduced \u00a0child hospital admissions by 11,000 each year in England.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed the \u00a0the British Hospital Episode Statistics database to analyze over 1,500,000 general hospital admissions for children aged from 0 to 14 years, between 2001-2012 from across England. They found that the legislation resulted in an immediate decline in admissions for lower respiratory tract infections (RTI) and a gradual decline in admissions for upper RTIs.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has shown a strong link connecting second-hand smoke inhalation and RTIs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erj.ersjournals.com\/content\/early\/2015\/05\/28\/09031936.00014615\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>European Respiratory Journal\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 29<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Jasper V. Been, School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking legislation reduced \u00a0child hospital admissions by 11,000 each year in England. Researchers analyzed the \u00a0the British Hospital Episode Statistics database to analyze over 1,500,000 general hospital admissions for children aged from 0 to 14 years, between 2001-2012 from across England. They found that the legislation resulted in an immediate decline in admissions for lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,476,1666],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-smoking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-14E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}