Secondhand smoke laws may reduce childhood ear infections

Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 13:50 in Health & Medicine

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and colleagues from Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society have found that a reduction in secondhand smoking in American homes was associated with fewer cases of otitis media, the scientific name for middle ear infection. The study appears on January 26, 2011, as an online first article on the website of the journal Tobacco Control...

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