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| GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) -- Every day an estimated 82,000-99,000 young people start smoking, many under age 10, World Health Organization officials say.
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization says tobacco is marketed to children and the tobacco industry recognizes that new smokers must be recruited to replace those who quit or die of tobacco-related diseases.
"The dangers of tobacco consumption and second-hand smoke have been widely recognized, children are also harmed in less apparent ways; through hunger and malnutrition when scarce resources are diverted to tobacco purchases rather than food, exploitation of children as workers in tobacco farming and by death and injury resulting from fires caused by cigarettes," the report said.
"Almost half of the children who had never smoked were exposed to second-hand smoke both at home and outside the home."
Although most of the research on media influences of tobacco has been conducted in a few high-income countries, but distribution of free cigarettes and widespread awareness of tobacco advertisements has been demonstrated among children in Africa, the report said.
The authors of the report are all members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium.
Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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| EDMONTON, Alberta (UPI) -- A Canadian researcher warns research studies on children may tend to exaggerate benefits.
Lisa Harling of the University of Alberta Center for Health Evidence in Edmonton found 96 percent of the 163 North American clinical trials examined were either unclear or showed high risk of bias.
Flawed medical research, she says, could lead to children receiving treatment that either doesn't work or is harmful. It could also mean children are not receiving treatment that may help.
Her paper, published in the British Medical Journal, says some faulty research factors contributing to bias include selective reporting, inappropriate influence by the study sponsor or missing data.
Harling and colleagues are part of an international effort to develop guidelines to improve child-related research that includes StaR Child Health, experts at the World Health Organization and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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