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 medicineFamily Medicine, says exposing children to secondhand smoke is 'as abusive as leaving children unattended in hot car, or drink driving' Adam Goldstein, a professor in family medicine controversial opinion piece has been published in the latest issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
article_snippet: In it, Adam Goldstein, a professor in family 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: 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 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: Says  exposure is as abusive as leaving children  in hot cars or drink driving .
  