Figure 1.6.2

Percentage of children with asthma who never smoked and were residing in US public housing with exposure to secondhand smoke, 2011

Exposure to secondhand smoke is high among children living in public housing, which is associated with increased lung cancer, heart disease, and asthma morbidity/mortality.

Results are presented for two serum cotinine limits of detection (LODs): 0.05 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) and 0.015 ng/mL.

Footnote

The 2009 National Youth Tobacco Survey was used to estimate the number of never smokers among public housing adolescents because data stratified by family income or housing type were not available; all children < 11yrs were considered never smokers. The national percentage of current nonsmokers with detectible serum cotinine levels who participated in the 2007–2008 and 2009–2010 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) was used to estimate the proportion of children exposed to SHS.

Source

Mason J, Wheeler W, Brown MJ. The economic burden of exposure to secondhand smoke for child and adult never smokers residing in US public housing. Public Health Rep. 2015 May-Jun;130(3):230-44.