Some Immediate Effects of a Smoking Environment on Children of Elementary School Age

Purpose [line break] The purpose of this study was to determine the immediate effects of a cigarette smoking environment on children of elementary school age. Special emphasis was made to determine the extent to which a cigarette smoking environment affected the nonsmoking child's heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and amount of carbon monoxide in the blood. In addition, an effort was made to determine if nonsmoking elementary school age children from nonsmoking homes were affected differently than nonsmoking elementary school age children from smoking homes and if the male subjects were affected differently than the female subjects. ...