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The Asthma Foundation urges smokers to visit GP
New Zealand Doctor Online
With World COPD Day approaching on 16 November, the Asthma Foundation is urging smokers and ex smokers who have breathing difficulties to talk to their GP or contact their nearest Asthma Society. A simple breathing test called spirometry can show
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Indoor air cleaner helped reduce asthma symptoms in children living with smokers – Pediatric SuperSite

Indoor air cleaner helped reduce asthma symptoms in children living with smokers
Pediatric SuperSite
Air cleaners can greatly reduce air pollution and lower the rates of daytime asthma symptoms in children living in households with one or more smokers, according to a study. “Use of air cleaners in homes of children with asthma was associated with a

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Air cleaner helps asthmatic kids living with smokers – Reuters

Air cleaner helps asthmatic kids living with smokers
Reuters
The devices are no cure-all and parents of children with asthma should always strive for a smoke-free home, researchers stress. But in cases where that's not yet a reality, they say, air cleaners may lessen the ill effects of secondhand smoke.
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Indoor air cleaners ease asthma symptoms in children living with smokers – EurekAlert (press release)

Indoor air cleaners ease asthma symptoms in children living with smokers
EurekAlert (press release)
A Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of Baltimore City children who have asthma and live with smokers shows that indoor air cleaners can greatly reduce household air pollution and lower the rates of daytime asthma symptoms to those achieved with

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