article_snippet: Repeated exposure of children to secondhand smoke is child abuse, a leading doctor has warned.
article_snippet: Adam Goldstein, a professor in Family Medicine, says exposure is as abusive as leaving children unattended in hot car, or drink driving.
article_snippet: Adam Goldstein, a professor in family medicine claims Adam Goldstein, a professor in family medicine was forced to speak out after caring for 'too many children hospitalised with asthma and pneumonia, caused in large part to Adam Goldstein, a professor in family medicine repeated exposure to secondhand smoke'.
article_snippet: Dr Goldsteimn argues that purposefully and repeatedly exposing children to a something known to cause cancer in humans would strike many people as child abuse .
article_snippet: In His controversial opinion piece, Dr Goldsteimn argues that purposefully and repeatedly exposing children to a something known to cause cancer in humans would strike many people as child abuse. '
article_snippet: Dr Goldstein, who is director of the tobacco intervention programs in the University of North Carolina School of Family Medicine, says the damage from smoke is 'as abusive as many other commonly accepted physical and emotional traumas of children'.
article_snippet: Dr Goldstein, who is director of the tobacco intervention programs in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine comments come after years of caring for children who have suffered severe respiratory illness due to secondhand smoke exposure.
article_snippet: In His controversial opinion piece, Dr Goldstein, who is director of the tobacco intervention programs in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine writes: 'Scientific research over the last decade has increasingly demonstrated that exposure to secondhand smoke is not simply a nuisance; exposure to secondhand smoke is deadly. '
article_snippet: Dr Goldstein, who is director of the tobacco intervention programs in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine argues that purposefully and repeatedly exposing children to a something known to cause cancer in humans would strike many people as child abuse . '
article_snippet: [Therefore], purposefully and recurrently exposing children to secondhand smoke - a known human carcinogen - despite repeated warnings, is child abuse.'
highlights_snippet: Comes as doctor said passive smoking should be classed as 'child abuse' 