... papers covering the period 1979–1998. Fifty-eight studies are included in the review, with the most widely used index of exposure being parental smoking. Smoking by all household members, by either parent separately and by the mother during pregnancy were also considered in some of the studies. Only 3...

...Alison J. Thornton; Peter N. Lee This paper reviews evidence relating parental smoking to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk in their offspring, based on English-language papers covering the period 1966–1996. Twenty-eight prospective and case-control studies provided suitable data...

...Alison J. Thornton; Peter N. Lee This paper reviews evidence relating parental smoking to risk of cancer in their offspring, based on English-language papers covering the period 1957–1997. Forty-eight case-control and prospective studies provided suitable data. The studies mainly considered...