Meeting our ends by our means: protecting children from SHS in research
- Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez1,2,
- David Gimeno3,
- George L Delclos4,
- James Thrasher1,5,
- Paula Knudson4
- 1Tobacco Research Department, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- 3The University of Texas - School of Public Health, San Antonio, Texas, USA
- 4The University of Texas - School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA
- 5Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Correspondence to Dr Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Tobacco Research Department, National Institute of Public Health, 7a. Cerr. Fray Pedro de Gante #50, Col. Seccion XVI, Del. Tlalpan, Mexico City 14000, Mexico; tbarrientos{at}insp.mx
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Contributors All co-authors participated in the preparation of the manuscript.
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We are concerned by the recent publication of a randomised clinical trial in your journal, in which smoking parents were asked
to continue smoking in the presence of their children for 6 months to evaluate if secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure increased
the risk of bruxism.1 It is surprising that after acknowledging that SHS is “…a serious public health threat” with a large impact on children's health, ranging from respiratory affections to cardiovascular damage, authors conducted
a study in which:“The smoking members of the families in group 1 were asked …
