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Unfriendly Fire: How the Tobacco Industry is Destroying the Future of Our Children.

Acta Med Litu

February 2021

Vilnius University Medical Faculty Institute of Health Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania Vilnius University Medical Faculty Institute of Clinical Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania Planning Committee of Global Initiative Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (WHO GARD), Geneva, Switzerland.

Tobacco has long been known to be one of the greatest causes of morbidity and mortality in the adults, but the effects on the foetus and young children, which are lifelong, have been less well appreciated. Developing from this are electronic nicotine delivery systems or vapes, promulgated as being less harmful than tobacco. Nicotine itself is toxic to the foetus, with permanent effects on lung structure and function.

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