{"id":3059,"date":"2014-04-01T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:35:52","slug":"smoking-bans-cut-asthma-and-premature-births","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/smoking-bans-cut-asthma-and-premature-births\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking bans cut asthma and premature births"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking bans cut asthma and premature births by 10%, study says according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Laws banning smoking in public places have had a positive impact on child health, an international study in the Lancet suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found a 10% reduction in premature births and severe childhood asthma attacks within a year of smoke-free laws being introduced.<\/p>\n<p>A research team analysed 11 previous studies from North America and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said smoking bans benefitted adults and children<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-26770009p:\/\/\">. Read More &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking bans cut asthma and premature births by 10%, study says according to the BBC. Laws banning smoking in public places have had a positive impact on child health, an international study in the Lancet suggests. Researchers found a 10% reduction in premature births and severe childhood asthma attacks within a year of smoke-free laws &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/smoking-bans-cut-asthma-and-premature-births\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smoking bans cut asthma and premature births<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24,6,30,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alc-health-news","category-alc-international-health-insurance-news","category-alc-travel-news","category-expat-alert","category-expat-global-health-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}